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[STORMREPORTS] Torrential Rains Cause Gas Pipeline Burst in Mexico

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Fri Jun 06 2003 - 21:42:19 EDT

         http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030606/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/mexico_explosion_10

"Officials said floods from the rain-gorged Chiquito River swept through
town and ruptured a 2-foot-diameter gas pipeline. El Mundo de Veracruz, a
newspaper in the closest major city, Orizaba, reported Friday that two
explosions followed, the first caused by a truck veering off the wet
pavement on a mountain road and hitting the gas line, and the second caused
by a landslide nearby.

The newspaper said people, animals and cars were swept down the
mountainside in a torrent of water, mud, rocks and branches." 

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