MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least one worker from Mexico’s state oil company Pemex died on Wednesday in a fuel pipeline explosion in the central state of Hidalgo, local officials said on Twitter.
Media outlet Reporte Indigo posted a video online showing a large fire lighting up the night sky from the pipeline blast near the town of Xolostitla, Hidalgo.
Some nearby residents were also being evacuated, according to a tweet from Mexico’s National Guard.
(Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz and Valentine Hilaire; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)