Fourteen people have been killed and another injured after a Black Hawk military helicopter crashed in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa, the South American country’s navy says. 

The cause of the crash is being investigated, but so far there was no information indicating the incident was related to the arrest of drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero in another part of Sinaloa on Friday, the navy said in a statement. 

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