Mexico explosion: Families demand answers over deadly blast
- 8 years ago
Twenty-four people died after a leak caused a deadly petrochemical plant blast, and the death toll could still rise, Mexican oil giant Pemex said on Thursday, the latest in a series of fatal accidents to batter the company.
The massive explosion at the facility's chlorinate 3 plant in the Gulf state of Veracruz also injured 136 people, 13 of them seriously.
Another 18 people were unaccounted for, and one badly damaged part of the plant had yet to be scoured.
"We know there was a leak, what we don't know is why, but everything points to an accident," Gonzalez Anaya said.
He denied the blast was tied to the economic problems of Pemex, which is trying to stem sliding output and slash costs as it creaks under the pressure of low crude prices.
The massive explosion at the facility's chlorinate 3 plant in the Gulf state of Veracruz also injured 136 people, 13 of them seriously.
Another 18 people were unaccounted for, and one badly damaged part of the plant had yet to be scoured.
"We know there was a leak, what we don't know is why, but everything points to an accident," Gonzalez Anaya said.
He denied the blast was tied to the economic problems of Pemex, which is trying to stem sliding output and slash costs as it creaks under the pressure of low crude prices.