21/01/2019 12:59
Mexico pipeline blast kills 79 and injures dozens more
Mexican authorities now say at least 79 people were killed in Friday night's fuel pipeline blast.
It is believed the explosion occurred after the line was ruptured by suspected fuel thieves in the town of Tlahuelilpan, in Hidalgo state.
Officials say scores of people had been scrambling to fill up containers and were engulfed in an inferno.
Dozens of charred bodies remain at the scene, which is cordoned off by security forces.
Hidalgo state governor Omar Fayad said 74 people had been hospitalised after the blast.
Locals said President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's new policy to crack down on fuel theft had created shortages.