4 killed in light plane crash in Mexico

Four people are dead after a light aircraft crashed near the Saltillo Airport in Coahuila, Mexico, Report informs, citing local media.

A Piper PA-46 plane with four people on board came down just 200 meters short of a runway at the airport - officially the Plan de Guadalupe International Airport - at around midday after taking off from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, some 40 minutes earlier, according to Coahuila authorities.

Just before the crash, the pilot, identified as Antonio Ávila, said that the aircraft had run out of fuel, the Milenio newspaper reported.

The other three victims were Adriana Garza Ibarra, Rosario Garza Ibarra and Hilda Garza Ibarra, according to the newspaper El Heraldo de Saltillo.

Milenio said that Adriana Garza Ibarra was a crew member and that the other two women were from the United States, but El Heraldo said that all three were passengers. Their surnames suggest they were sisters.