Helicopter crash kills Honduran president's sister

Helicopter crash kills Honduran president's sister

Hilda Hernandez, sister of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, addresses the audience at an event in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Oct 3, 2016. (Reuters photo)
Hilda Hernandez, sister of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, addresses the audience at an event in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Oct 3, 2016. (Reuters photo)

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras: Hilda Hernandez, sister of President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and five other people were killed in a helicopter crash Saturday on a mountain near the Honduran capital.

Hernandez, 51, was an agronomy engineer who served as communications minister under her brother and as minister of social development during the previous administration of then-president Porfirio Lobo.

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