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Mexico City Gas Tanker Blast Toll Rises to 29 After Deaths of Worker and IPN Student

Mobile prosecutors now assist victims’ families at key hospitals during ongoing treatment for the injured.

Overview

  • The city health authority’s latest update lists 29 deaths, 16 people still hospitalized and 39 discharged following the September 10 explosion in Iztapalapa.
  • The newly reported fatalities are Adolfo Franco Madrigal, 36, who was treated at ISSSTE Zaragoza, and Alí Yael González Aranda, 18, a CECyT 7 student of the IPN who had been at the National Rehabilitation Institute.
  • The Fiscalía deployed four mobile Ministerio Público units at Rubén Leñero, ISSSTE Zaragoza, Magdalena de las Salinas and the National Rehabilitation Institute to support families in legal procedures.
  • Patients continue receiving care across IMSS hospitals, the National Rehabilitation Institute, Pemex Picacho, Rubén Leñero, Tacubaya and one case at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas.
  • ISSSTE reports three patients remain in its facilities, two in very serious condition and one serious but stable, and the dead include tanker driver Fernando Soto Munguía, 34.