Images broadcast by Mexican television show flames high in the dark sky
At least 21 people have been killed and 54 others injured in a fuel pipeline explosion in central Mexico on Friday, Governor Omar Fayyad has said.
"The initial reports I received are very serious, they inform me of 20 people who were killed and 54 injured," Fayyad told Mexican television. With newer statements, he increased the number of dead to 21 and his injured to 71, without the fire having been extinguished yet.
Pictures broadcast by Mexican television show flames high in the dark sky with the pipeline burning in the municipality of Tlavelilpan near a refinery north of Mexico City.
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Explosion of clandestine toma en #Tlahuelilpan #Gentleman, gente se acercó a tomar fuels despes de un fuga y cuando esta explotó habían muchas personas ahí.
For now there are no figures of deaths or herds.
📸 Video and information: Grito Informativo pic.twitter.com/MyEHNNF2x2- Luis Borja (@ luisborja76) January 19, 2019
Explosion from Tlahuelilpan, Hidalgo, where a variety of herrids https://t.co/BnQI1gX8U4 pic.twitter.com/JG878Mp1cz- Milenio.com (@Milenio) January 19, 2019