Three dead, dozens injured after explosion at Mexican children’s hospital

A powerful gas tank truck explosion shattered a maternity and children’s hospital in Mexico City on Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens. Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera told Milenio television that three were killed, a woman and two men. He earlier told the Televisa network that at least 54 people were injured, 22 of them children.

We have to conduct an evacuation for safety because a lot of the people are babies in the crib area.

Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera

The explosion sent a column of smoke billowing over the area on the western edge of Mexico’s capital and television images showed much of the hospital collapsed, with firefighters trying to extinguish fires. Mancera said the heaviest damage was near the hospital’s loading dock.

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