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Official: Gas Leak Caused Mexico Oil Company Blast


Ron Burgundy
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An employee culls through debris searching for office documents amid the rubble left from an office building explosion, in Mexico City, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013. A Thursday blast collapsed the lower floors of the Mexican state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, headquarters, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121. A Pemex spokesman said the floors hit by the explosion housed administrative offices. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gas buildup under a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state oil company caused a blast that killed 37 people and wounded dozens, the attorney-general said Monday, ending days of near-total silence by authorities about the petroleum giant's worst disaster in more than a decade.




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