Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The death toll in a gas pipeline explosion in Central Mexico on Friday night rose to 73 people, the governor of the country's Hidalgo state said.
Gov. Omar Fayad wrote on Twitter Saturday the number of those killed had climbed from an initial 66, and that 74 were injured and 24 were being treated in hospitals after the explosion in Tlahuelilpan, a town about 80 miles north of Mexico City.