Cuba Plane Crash Death Toll Rises to 111, Mexico Suspends Lease Company

Cuba Plane Crash Death Toll Rises to 111, Mexico Suspends Lease Company
Rescue team members work in the wreckage of a Boeing 737 plane. Reuters/Alexandre Meneghini
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HAVANA/MEXICO CITY—The death toll in one of Cuba’s worst air disasters rose to 111 on Monday while Mexico suspended the operations of the Mexican company that had leased the 39-year old Boeing 737 to Cuba’s flagship airline.

Grettel Landrove, a 23-year old Cuban student who loved to dance flamenco, died in a Havana hospital from “severe traumatic lesions”, Cuban state-run media reported.