A burst due to gas accumulation, it was recorded today in Tlalpan, Mexico City (CDMX), leaving six people injured and several homes damaged.
The explosion due to gas accumulation destroyed two homes, leaving 2 people trapped and four people injured on Francisco I. Madero street in the Miguel Hidalgo colony 2nd Sectionin the mayor’s office of Tlalpan, CDMX.
Neighbors From the area, upon hearing the explosion and the shock wave that shook the surrounding houses, they went to the site of the explosion to Help trapped and injured people.
It was ten to eight and a roar was heard, a fairly loud explosion, the ‘shaking’ of the crash even reached the house. When we left, we saw that both houses were practically destroyed and we began to hear that there were relatives inside the houses,” said Aarón Medina, neighbor.
And I add:
In the first house we entered there was a man about 80 years old, an elderly man, he was trapped and among several neighboring friends we went in and got him out. Afterwards they took out a woman completely burned all over her body and from the house on the left side, also completely destroyed, we took out a woman carrying.”
Area cordoned off due to explosion in Tlalpan
The area is cordoned off by the authorities of the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City for the work of the specialists and the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office.
Authorities from the Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management gave the preliminaries about the explosion.
At seven fifty-eight in the morning the report came out with an accumulation of gas, obviously an explosion was generated with some damage to neighbors as well,” said teacher Humberto González Arroyo, Operational Tactical Director of the SGIRPC.
Miriam Urzúahead of the Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management, reported the following:
Six injured people have been transported, some to
Now we are looking at the issue of the affected homes, which are around six that have collateral damage, it is damage to glassware, glass that fell precisely due to the explosion due to the shock wave, canceling and ironwork, in other cases, the doors of entrance”.
There was 30 kilo LP gas there and there were four of these together and surely one of them would have a leak and that leak could very easily ignite with any spark.”
The area continues to be cordoned off for the work of the emergency teams and experts of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City, in addition to the presence of the Army, Navy and the National Guard.
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