MEXICO CITY: At least 14 Mexican marines were killed when their helicopter reportedly crashed during the arrest and transport of a drug lord in northern Mexico, the Mexican Navy said in a statement.

The Black Hawk helicopter of Navy was escorting another aircraft carrying Rafael Caro Quintero, founder of the Guadalajara Cartel, who was arrested earlier in the day in the northern state of Sinaloa.
According to a report by Xinhua and the Navy, one person survived the Friday crash, the reason of which has not yet been determined.

There is currently no information connecting the jet crash to the arrest of the alleged drug trafficker, the Navy said in a statement, adding that it "laments the deaths of those who lost their lives in this disaster." Caro Quintero is wanted by the US and is being sought for extradition in connection with the 1985 murder of Enrique Camarena Salazar, a DEA agent.

The relations between Mexico and the United States were tense due  to the Camarena case for a time, former DEA agent Hector Berrellez told Xinhua in an interview.

According to the Navy, a sniffer dog in the town of Choix, Sinaloa, found Caro Quintero, a man who had been on the run for several years, hiding in some bushes.

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