Overview

• Mexico City’s health department raised the Iztapalapa LP-gas explosion toll to 25 dead, with 21 people still hospitalized and 38 discharged.
• The burn charity Michou y Mau said two-year-old Jazlyn Azulet, transferred to Shriners in Galveston, was extubated and remains in critical-stable condition.
• FGJ-CDMX maintains the tanker overturned due to excessive speed, while surveillance video published by media shows the vehicle moving at a moderate pace before the blast.
• In Lima, gunmen killed a colectivo driver and a woman in Chorrillos in a suspected extortion-linked attack, and a lawyer was shot dead in Comas as her two daughters were wounded and remain hospitalized.
• In Argentina, a Buenos Aires Province police officer died in Merlo after a dooring fall led to a bus strike—with a prosecutor ordering peritajes and imputations—and a man was killed at an unbarred rail crossing in San Lorenzo, alongside other fatal road crashes reported in multiple provinces.