An enormous oil pipeline blast lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, cremating people, cars, houses and trees as talkative crude turned streets into blazing rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a tragedy powers that be blamed on oil thieves.
The oil blast in San Martin Texmelucan, initally predictable to have affected 5,000 residents in a three-mile (five-kilometer) radius, scorched homes and cars and left metal and asphalt road twisted and in some cases burned to ash in the powerful heat.
Relations sobbed as firefighters pulled charred bodies from the burned homes, some of the remnants barely more than piles of ashes and bones.
Officials knew all but four of the dead by Sunday night. Even though they released some names, they didn't say if they were all inhabitants of the area or possible suspects.
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