Four die as explosion flattens Mexico children's hospital

Rescuers are searching for survivors of a powerful gas explosion that shattered a maternity and children’s hospital in Mexico City, killing at least three adults and one baby while injuring dozens more.

Four die as explosion flattens Mexico children's hospital

Rescuers are searching for survivors of a powerful gas explosion that shattered a maternity and children’s hospital in Mexico City, killing at least three adults and one baby while injuring dozens more.

Claudia Dominguez, a spokeswoman for the city’s civil defence agency, confirmed the deaths from the gas tank truck explosion, but said she could not verify a report by a local borough chief, Adrian Rubalcava, that seven had died.

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