Death toll from Mexico crude-oil blast rises to 29

MEXICO CITY – The death toll from a massive crude-oil explosion that laid waste to parts of a central Mexican city has risen to 29.

Authorities in Puebla State say they located the remains of a baby in the arms of one of the other 28 victims.

Sunday's blast in San Martin Texmelucan, believed to be caused by oil thieves, also injured 52 and damaged or destroyed 115 homes.

Puebla state government spokesman Noe Torres said Tuesday that 6 of the injured remained hospitalized, 5 in grave condition.

The outburst occurred when crude began gushing from a state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos pipeline into a city street and river, igniting everything in its pathway. Investigators found a hole in the pipeline and equipment for extracting crude.

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Mexican city devastated by pipeline blast; 28 die

An enormous oil pipeline blast lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, cremating people, cars, houses and trees as talkative crude turned streets into blazing rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a tragedy powers that be blamed on oil thieves.

The oil blast in San Martin Texmelucan, initally predictable to have affected 5,000 residents in a three-mile (five-kilometer) radius, scorched homes and cars and left metal and asphalt road twisted and in some cases burned to ash in the powerful heat.

Relations sobbed as firefighters pulled charred bodies from the burned homes, some of the remnants barely more than piles of ashes and bones.

Officials knew all but four of the dead by Sunday night. Even though they released some names, they didn't say if they were all inhabitants of the area or possible suspects.

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