MEXICO: GAS EXPLOSION DISASTER IN MEXICO LEAVES TEN DEAD AND MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED.

Record ID: 1057776

  • Title: MEXICO: GAS EXPLOSION DISASTER IN MEXICO LEAVES TEN DEAD AND MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
  • Date: 17th July 1978
  • Summary: 1. GV NIGHT SCENE OF fire (3 shots) 0.14 2. SV Firemen hosing down burning wrecked tanker (3 shots) 0.29 3. GV (FOLLOWING MORNING) Wrecked bus with onlookers milling around 0.43 REPORTER: "More than 26 tons of liquid natural gas exploded into a ball of fire when the tank truck turned over on a busy highway. The flames spread over a half a mile
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1978 13:00
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  • Location: NORTH OF MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Reuters ID: LVA2368W7YC6GDVBI0CMLHS0TDNL
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