Relatives of one of the victims counted after explosion of a gas truck In the municipality of Iztapalapa, in the Mexico Citythey denied today the official version of the number of deaths caused by the accident and that one of them was still alive.
In a message in its X account, the Ministry of Public Health of the Mexican capital reported nine people who died, 55 hospitalized and 22 injured that have already been discharged from different hospitals, after the tragedy that occurred on Wednesday afternoon in the east of the city.
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According to the list published by the Ministry of Health of Mexico City, among the deceased is Alicia Matías Teodoro, the woman who resulted in burns in more than 90 % of her body after protecting her 2 -year -old granddaughter from the flames.
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However, relatives of the woman have declared to local media that the list is wrong and that, after publishing, personnel of the Magdalena de las Salinas hospital where Alicia remains hospitalized she told them that she was still alive.
In the official list, republished by the Government of Mexico City, the name of Ana Daniela Ramírez Barragán, a student from the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), also appears, whose death was confirmed moments before by the educational institution.
However, in both cases the ages of the list do not coincide with the data previously informed by family members.
Photography that shows a calcined vehicle after the accident of a gas truck, on September 10, 2025, in Mexico City (Mexico). Photo: EFE/ MARIO GUZMÁN
Of the 55 hospitalized that appear on the list, 20 are in critical, 29 in a delicate state and six in serious condition, in different clinics and hospitals in the city.
However, the total number of fatalities and injured in this list sum 86, a figure that contrasts with the information released by the head of government, Clara Brugada, who on Thursday afternoon reported 94 affected after the event, eight of them deceased.
On Wednesday afternoon, a tank truck with a capacity of 49,500 liters overturned and exploded on the Ignacio Zaragoza road, at the height of the Concordia bridge, in the Iztapalapa mayor’s office, in the east of the Mexican capital.
