Death Toll Now 4 in Mexico Gas Fire
Two more victims of a fire in three gasoline storage tanks at a plant in northeastern Mexico died Friday, raising the death toll to four, the state oil company Pemex announced.
A company statement said that a Pemex employee and an architect for a construction firm died from burns suffered in the accident. One person had been killed soon after the fire started Thursday and another had died later that day, Pemex said.
The Pemex statement said the blaze, in the Monterrey industrial suburb of Guadalupe, was extinguished Friday morning but started again from unexplained causes two hours later.
The company said the fire was expected to burn itself out and did not pose a danger to residents of the area.
Thousands of people who fled Thursday began heading home.
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