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Friday 29 of March 2024

Death Toll Rises to 32 in Mexico Petrochemical Plant Blast


Mexico Oil Plant Explosion,photo: AP/Félix Márquez
Mexico Oil Plant Explosion,photo: AP/Félix Márquez
More than 130 people in all suffered injuries when the explosion rocked the plant in Coatzacoalcos, 370 miles southeast of Mexico City

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state oil company says that searchers have recovered four more bodies from a petrochemical plant wrecked by a huge explosion on the country’s Gulf coast, raising the death toll to 32.

Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a statement Sunday that rescuers with dogs had reached some of the area’s most affected by Wednesday’s blast and had located more bodies. It said all the workers in the plant that day have been located.

The company said more than 130 people in all suffered injuries when the explosion rocked the plant in Coatzacoalcos, 600 kilometers (370 miles) southeast of Mexico City.

Pemex has said the explosion happened after a leak but has not determined the source.

The Clorados 3 plant of Petroquímica Mexicana de Vinilo produces the hazardous industrial chemical vinyl chloride.