The extent of the tragedy is only getting worse - almost 100 deaths after Pipeline fire in Mexico?

The new Mexican President López Obrador says fuel thieves the fight. A few weeks after Amtsbeginn a disaster, the many people costs lives. Update 22. January

The extent of the tragedy is only getting worse - almost 100 deaths after Pipeline fire in Mexico?

The new Mexican President López Obrador says fuel thieves the fight. A few weeks after Amtsbeginn a disaster, the many people costs lives.

Update 22. January 20.22 PM:

After the devastating Explosion of a gasoline pipeline in Mexico, the death toll is at 94 increased. 49 people were still in various hospitals treated the Governor of the state of Hidalgo, Omar Fayad said on Tuesday the TV station "Televisa". The Mexican health Minister, Jorge Alcocer, stated in a press conference that 46 of the injured in hospitals were.

Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced an extensive social package, to address the Problem of gasoline theft. About 3.9 billion Pesos (About 178 million euros) would be invested in communities that have so far benefited from the theft of fuel, in order to offer the people an Alternative, said the left politician.

Near the Pipeline had been at the time of the Explosion on Friday, according to media reports, several Hundred people. On the line in the town of Tlahuelilpan previously, a leak was created, local residents wanted to take advantage of that and gasoline in buckets and canisters take. According to reports, the flames after the Explosion up to 20 meters high. The soil around the Pipeline was charred.

The population would have to be better about the risks of the petrol-theft of its security, said Hidalgos Governor Fayad. The people must be made clear that you would have to think of is a leak in the remote and report it.

Update from the 20. January, 19.08 PM:

In the fire of a tapped gasoline Pipeline in Mexico at least 79 people died. This information is the health Minister, Jorge Alcocer, made after the accident in the state of Hidalgo. 66 additional persons would be treated in the hospital - including some with severe burns on 80 percent of the body. The Victims were villagers who wanted to siphon fuel from the damaged Pipeline.

The accident occurred in the vicinity of the 20,000 residents of the city of Tlahuelilpan a good hundred kilometers North of Mexico city. Hundreds of people, including whole families, had rushed on Friday afternoon (local time) with Jerry cans and buckets to the fuel line, to supply illegally with fuel. However, there was an Explosion and the Pipeline caught fire. The flames meters high in the sky, around midnight, the fire was extinguished.

On Saturday assured the soldiers destroyed the Pipeline, the smoke-filled still. The coroner, in white protective suits examined the bodies, the charred. Still hung pungent smell of gasoline in the air. Witnesses described harrowing scenes from the crash site. "I was just coming to see what's going on when the Explosion occurred. I have rushed to the people to help," said the 47-year-old Fernando Garcia. "I had to go between the Remains of people who were completely burned."

+ In the case of the fire on a tapped gasoline Pipeline in Mexico at least 79 people died. This information is the health Minister, Jorge Alcocer, made after the accident in the state of Hidalgo.©dpa / El Universal

According to the government was tapped into the Pipeline of fuel smugglers. When the government learned about it, sent them a unit of 25 soldiers to the leak, as the Minister of defense Luis Crescencio Sandoval said. It was not the soldiers but the estimated stop 700 people. As the Explosion occurred, had withdrawn the soldiers, according to the back, to avoid a confrontation.

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President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador visited site on the Saturday morning of the accident. He was "deeply concerned" about the accident and took the soldiers in protection. They had not acted correctly, it was "easy" to bring a crowd under control.

U.S. homeland security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said that her Ministry is ready to help the rescue workers and the Mexican government "in every way". German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), said López Obrador and the Mexicans in a telegram to her "heartfelt condolences".

López Obrador had only started at the beginning of December his office and to the fuel theft, the fight announced. Due to the illegal Tapping of Pipelines around 2.6 billion euros were lost to the Mexican state, according to official figures alone, in 2017, the equivalent of. Several fuel lines were closed in the past few weeks by the government to stop the Goings-on of criminal gangs.

The new strategy of the President has led in the past few days in several Mexican States to petrol and diesel shortages. In many of the country people to share - or even days long standing in line, their cars refuel.

Also in Tlahuelilpan made the inhabitants of the fuel shortages for the deadly incident to be responsible. "A lot of people came because of the gasoline shortage with their canisters," said the 55-year-old Martin Trejo, looking for on-the-spot desperate for his son.

The state Oil company Pemex reported a fire at a Pipeline in the Federal state of Querétaro. The fire broke out at one point, the people of illegal fuel abzapften. However, no one had been injured in the desert area.

initial notification: disaster in Mexico - the death toll continues to rise

an Explosion At a gasoline pipeline in Mexico at least 21 people are killed. At least 71 others were injured in the accident, informed the Governor of the state of Hidalgo, Omar Fayad, on Friday evening (local time) on Twitter. The attention was now to the injured, according to Fayad. He was on the way to the scene of the accident, the Governor. In the vicinity of the Pipeline would have been, therefore, at the time of the Explosion several Hundred people, local media reported. On the line in the town of Tlahuelilpan had formed previously a leak, residents of the area approached to carry fuel in buckets or canisters.

How it came exactly to the Explosion was not initially clear. On the video recordings was to see how after the Explosion, panic at the scene of the accident, prevailed. People ran away screaming from the fuel line. The Pipeline flames in the height. The fire spread to the scene of the accident. Forces closed off the area. Mexico's President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador called on the government to support the people in the affected Region. The fire was extinguished late on Friday evening.

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special forces were at the scene of the accident, such as the state oil company Pemex said on Twitter. In addition, eleven were in the ambulance. The injured with severe burns were taken to hospitals in the capital, Mexico city, Pemex. From the capital, the rescue would have sent a helicopter, said mayor Claudia Sheinbaum on Twitter. Tlahuelilpan the capital, is located about 85 kilometers to the North.

On Friday afternoon, had been reported, according to the TV channel "Milenio TV" a leak in the line. Pemex said that it was an illegal Extraction test on the Pipeline between the cities of Tuxpan and Tula. Petrol theft is a large Problem in Mexico. According to Pemex figures, it was tried in the past year, every 30 minutes, illegally one of the Pipelines to tap into. Hidalgos Governor is not called after the accident the population to participate in the gasoline Theft. Life is dangerous, warned Fayad on Twitter. "This is happening today in Tlahuelilpan, and it must not be repeated."

The government since the end of December against fuel theft and had already some of the lines close. The Fuel is now transported in guarded by tank trucks. At gas stations in the Latin American country in recent weeks, long queues.

dpa/AFP

Date Of Update: 23 January 2019, 00:01
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