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The disaster occurred at the Plaza de Cobro San Marcos, a toll booth in the State of Mexico just east of the border with Mexico City on Mexican Federal Highway 150D. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Investigation
The Pasta de Conchos mine disaster occurred at approximately 2:30 a.m. CST on February 19, 2006, after a methane explosion within a coal mine near Nueva Rosita, San Juan de Sabinas Municipality, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. The mines were run by Grupo México, the largest mining company in the country. It was estimated that 65 miners, who ...
The 2010 Puebla oil pipeline explosion was a large oil pipeline explosion that occurred at 5:50 am CST [1] on December 19, 2010, in the city of San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida, Puebla, Mexico. The pipeline, running from Tabasco to Hidalgo , [ 1 ] was owned by the Pemex petroleum company, and exploded after thieves from the Los Zetas drug ...
Illegally extracting, possessing, or safeguarding petrochemicals from pipelines, vehicles, equipment, or installations is a federal crime in Mexico and is punishable with up to 20 years in prison. [7] The gasoline thieves are known in Mexico as huachicoleros, [2] a name derived from the slang term huachicol, or poor-quality alcohol. [8]
Mexico’s Fund for Natural Disasters, known as Fonden, was set up in the late Nineties, taking a small portion of the federal budget in order to rapidly respond to natural disasters. It was ...
New Mexico state police said at least two people died in the blazes. Patrick Pearson, 60, died on Tuesday. Officials found him on the side of a road near a motel with several burns.Police have yet ...
A total of 18 Celaya police officers have been shot to death so far this year, making the city of a half million inhabitants probably the most dangerous city in the hemisphere for police.
At that time, it was Mexico's worst natural disaster in recent times. [23] Most of the destruction was in Colima and Jalisco. [24] A preliminary estimate of property damage was $280 million (1959 USD). [25] The storm sank three merchant ships, [26] and two other vessels. [27] On one ship, the Sinaloa, [28] 21 of 38 hands went down. [29]