El Salvador’s police director and a fugitive banker are among 9 dead in a helicopter crash

Associated Press

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s military says the national police director, other high-ranking police officials and a fugitive banker were among nine people killed in a military helicopter crash in a rural part of the country. The crash on Sunday night is being investigated. It occurred after the banker, Manuel Coto, was captured in Honduras over the weekend and handed over to Salvadoran authorities at the border. El Salvador’s president says in a post on X that “what happened cannot remain as a simple ‘accident’” and must be investigated thoroughly.