Video captures people running for cover after gas explosion rocks Mexico City apartment building, killing 1 and injuring 26
This is the shocking moment an apparent gas leak set off an explosion in a Mexico City apartment building complex that killed one person Monday.
Mexican newspaper El Universal reported that 26 people were injured, including 14 who were listed in serious condition. Four children were among the injured, including two who later tested positive for COVID-19.
The surveillance footage shows a passenger vehicle driving past the building on the capital's south side neighborhood of Benito Juárez when blast tore through the four-story building at 10:47am local time.
At least two people were seen running out of the premises within seconds of the powerful explosion that could be felt several blocks away.
A surveillance camera captured two people running out of a building in Mexico City moments after a gas leak set off a blast that tore through the four-story two building complex on Monday. The explosion killed one person and injured 26
An explosion reportedly caused by a gas leak left behind a shattered, windowless facade and crumbling interior walls exposed in the 63-unit building in Mexico City
A paramedic treats a woman who was injured Monday after a gas leak set off an explosion at a Mexico City apartment building complex
The powerful blast left behind a shattered, windowless facade and crumbling interior walls exposed in the 63-unit building.
Separate video footage showed paramedics tending to some of the injured while firefighters canvassed the building's interior.
Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed the lone casualty almost three hours following the accident but did not identify the victim.
Paramedics rush one of the tenants who was injured following Monday morning's explosion at an apartment building complex in Mexico City that left one dead and at least 26 hurt
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum was assured by a team of engineers that the structure of the two buildings' remained intact and were not in danger of collapsing
'I inform with deep sadness that one of the people injured by the explosion on Coyoacán Ave. unfortunately lost their life,' Sheinbaum wrote on her Twitter account. 'We are in contact with the family to provide all the support that is necessary.'
The mayor said that the city government was already coordinating efforts with the insurance company to assist the families that live in the two buildings that make up the 63-unit complex.
Sheinbaum was assured by a team of engineers that the structure of the two buildings' remained intact and were not in danger of collapsing.
A team of first responders treat an injured tenant in front of the Mexico City building following Monday morning's explosion that was reportedly caused by a gas leak
Paramedics wheel a man who was injured during an explosion in a building, caused by gas leak
Emergency workers search through the rubble following Monday's explosion at an apartment building complex in Mexico City
Some 300 people were evacuated from neighboring buildings as a precaution.
Residents at first though Mexico City had been rocked by an earthquake due because of the ferocity of the explosion sent glass flying past a building nearby.
'The neighbors asked if it had shaken, but no, it was an explosion,' a woman told FORO TV. 'It looked like the effects of a movie.'
The Mexico City prosecutor's office and experts from other agencies were investigating to determine the source of the gas leak.
