Overview

• The blast struck the Mis Tesoros bar on Calle Manuel Maroto around 3 p.m. Saturday, heavily impacting the residential building above.
• Emergency services count 25 injured, including three in grave condition and two potentially grave, with patients taken to La Paz and 12 de Octubre hospitals.
• Firefighters recovered the body of a 52-year-old man overnight from a basement area buried under more than a meter of sand and rubble.
• A major deployment of 18 fire crews and 13 Samur units used drones, canine teams and manual desescombro, rescuing four people from debris due to instability that barred heavy machinery.
• Policía Científica leads a forensic inquiry into a likely gas concentration or escape, with a converted, occupied commercial unit under scrutiny and nine dwellings declared damaged for temporary relocation.