Explosion in Iztapalapa: Two victims are unknown.
The Mexico City Health Secretariat reported on Thursday that the death toll from a gas pipeline explosion on the Puente de la Concordia Bridge on the 10th in the Iztapalapa borough has risen to 21 .
"We report on the accident in Iztapalapa, confirming that 27 people remain hospitalized, 36 people have already been discharged and 21 people have died, unfortunately," cites the message that the agency published at 10:06 in the morning on its account on the social network X.
Norma Chávez Ortega, 50, who was hospitalized at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, joined the list of the deceased.
As of Thursday, the list of people who lost their lives due to the pipeline explosion included:
Armando Antillón Chávez, 45; Ana Daniela Barragan Ramírez, 19; Juan Carlos Bonilla Sánchez, 41; Misael Cano Rodríguez, 39; Irving Uriel Carrillo Reyes, 20; Carlos Iván Contreras Salinas, 29; Oscar Ruéb Uriel Cortez Cisneros, 57; Eduardo Noé García Morales (SD); José Gabriel Hernández Méndez, 17; Juan Antonio Hernández Betancourt, 51; and Jorge Islas Flores, 50.
As well as Alicia Matías Teodoro Alicia, 49, the grandmother who saved her granddaughter from the flames; Juan Carlos Sánchez Blas, 15; (SD) Gilberto Aron, 47; Jesús Joel Tovar García, 40; Edgar Santiago Álvarez, 51; Omar Alejandro García Escorsa, 28; Oswaldo Gutiérrez Espinoza, 30; Fernando Soto Munguía, 34; and Eduardo Romero Armas, 30.
Two unknown peopleThe head of the Attorney General's Office in the nation's capital, Bertha Alcalde, reported that two people remain unknown, one of whom has already died while the other is in critical condition.
At a press conference, he explained:
"The deceased is a man between 40 and 50 years old, 1.64 meters tall, medium build, short brown hair, light brown skin, with an aquiline nose, who entered without clothes or belongings, and of whom there are no distinctive marks; with a probable name of Gilberto Aarón or Aarón Gustavo Hernández López, according to the information that was initially provided to the first respondent."
The second person is a woman—possibly identified as Giovana—between 15 and 25 years old, who is receiving medical care at the Magdalena de las Salinas General Hospital, located in the Gustavo A. Madero Municipality.
"With distinctive features such as a vertical scar from a cesarean section and four tattoos: a black tattoo of a heart with a rose through it on the lower back; another in the shape of a Greek-style bracelet with handwritten writing on the right forearm; and another tattoo of a heart bracelet on the left ankle," the prosecutor specified.
Authorities will publish photo search bulletins to gather more information, and the possibility of using artificial intelligence to reconstruct possible images that could facilitate identification will be explored.
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