Hidalgo's governor Omar Fayad told Mexican television that emergency services had registered the charred bodies of 21 people, and that at least 71 others had been injured. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has launched a major crackdown on rampant fuel theft, which the government said cost the country more than $3 billion last year. "I urge the entire population not to be complicit in fuel theft," Fayad said on Twitter. Separately, Pemex said on Friday evening it was also dealing with a separate pipeline rupture by suspected fuel thieves in San Juan del Rio in the neighboring state of Queretaro. Some users of social media responded to the explosion with anger, saying the fuel thieves only had themselves to blame.

Source: bd News24 January 19, 2019 04:07 UTC