Forensic experts attempted to separate and count charred heaps of corpses in central Mexico on Saturday after a massive fireball erupted at an illegal pipeline tap, killing at least 66 people. The leak was caused by an illegal pipeline tap in the small town of Tlahuelilpan, about 100 kilometres north of Mexico City, according to state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. Fuel theft crackdownAfter returning home from middle school yesterday, his father recounted, the boy went to join the crowd scooping up gasoline. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)In an early morning news conference Saturday, Lopez Obrador vowed to continue the fight against the $3.98 billion Cdn-per-year illegal fuel theft industry. The explosion came just as the government wages a major crackdown on fuel theft.

Source: CBC News January 19, 2019 14:20 UTC