At least three dead and over 70 injured. This is the provisional toll of violent gas explosion that destroyed Thursday morning half of a children's hospital on the outskirts of Mexico City. Among the injured, twenty are in serious condition. Many of them were hit by flying glass.
Several hours after the disaster, rescuers continued to search for survivors in the rubble. '' It's a long and difficult work. We have an experienced team, '' says the head of operations.
A nurse and two infants died in the explosion that blew almost the entire area of emergencies for newborns.
The accident occurred Thursday morning at 7 am local time, when a truck arrived to deliver gas to the facility. A leak in the pump of the vehicle is the cause of the disaster.
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