Overview

• Mexico City health officials updated the tally Saturday morning to 27 dead, 18 still hospitalized and 39 discharged.
• The latest fatality was reported overnight into Saturday, ten days after the September 10 LP-gas tanker explosion under the Puente de la Concordia in Iztapalapa near Santa Martha station.
• Authorities say victims with burn injuries were distributed across hospitals in the capital and State of Mexico for specialized treatment.
• Among those who died are tanker driver Fernando Soto Munguía and Alicia Matías Teodoro, who was reported to have shielded her granddaughter.
• A child victim, Jaiclyn Azulet Carrillo Matías, was transferred from Hospital de Pediatría Siglo XXI to Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, Texas, for advanced burn care.