People prepare to bury a person who died in the gas pipeline explosion, in the village of Tlahuelilpan, Mexico, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. (Claudio Cruz/Associated Press)MEXICO CITY — The death toll in a massive fire at an illegally tapped pipeline in Mexico rose to 89 Monday as more of the injured have died at hospitals. The government reported Monday that an astonishing total of 14,894 such illegal taps had been found in 2018, an average of about 41 per day nationwide. “They didn’t have gas because the gas stations weren’t selling any, and he needed to get to work,” said Calva Martinez. “I believe that if the gas stations had been selling gas, a lot of those people wouldn’t have been there,” she said of the victims.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 18:33 UTC