Two dead, dozens injured, as gas tanker hits train

At least two people died and 44 were injured when a tanker carrying liquid propane gas struck the side of a freight train near Mexico’s border with the US.

Two dead, dozens injured, as gas tanker hits train

At least two people died and 44 were injured when a tanker carrying liquid propane gas struck the side of a freight train near Mexico’s border with the US.

The resulting explosions yesterday reduced cement homes near the tracks in the town of Lucio Blanco to little more than piles of charred rubble, and corrugated metal roofing collapsed into some of the structures.

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