An explosion killed 13 people and injured scores at a petrochemical plant on Mexico's southern Gulf coast. The blast and ensuing fire caused evacuations in the area as a fire billowed a toxin-filled cloud into the air.
The head of Mexico's civil defense agency, Luis Felipe Puente, wrote in his Twitter account Thursday that emergency personnel had been able to enter the burned-out plant and found ten more cadavers. Three workers had been reported dead immediately following the blast Wednesday afternoon.
The state oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, said 136 workers had been hurt in the blast . . .
