According to preliminary data, one person died. Five others were wounded.

As reported by Xinhua, referring to official data, the explosion thundered about seven o'clock in the morning. At the same time, the police told that the attackers tried to steal oil from the pipeline, laid from the town of Minatitlan in the country's capital - Mexico City.

The explosion caused a fire and a column of thick black smoke. As a result, one person was killed, two more women and three men were taken to the hospital with burns.

The authorities of the country were forced to evacuate the evacuation of residents in the Zapoapan area, where the incident occurred, as well as students of the nearby University of Technology of the Central Veracruz.

However, the Mexican state-owned oil company Pemex reported that the fire managed to be controlled only to the floor after the spilled fuel was burnt.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the Stanichno-Luhansky district of Lugansk region in the courtyard of a private house a powerful explosion. As a result of the incident, a 13-year-old boy was injured.