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Death toll in Mexico gasoline pipeline blast climbs to 96
January 23, 2019

MEXICO CITY: The number of people who died in a gasoline pipeline explosion in central Mexico late last week has risen to 96, government officials said, from 91 reported a day earlier.

The explosion last Friday occurred after hundreds of people crowded in to collect gasoline gushing from a pipeline that had been ruptured by suspected fuel thieves near to the town of Tlahuelilpan in the state of Hidalgo.

Hidalgo’s government said in a statement that 96 people had been confirmed dead from the explosion, the worst to affect Mexico’s troubled oil infrastructure in several years. Another 48 people were receiving treatment for their injuries, it added. Reuters