Mexico hotel blast caused by swamp gas

[HannahTheSwearBear]

Another Mexico disaster. Not sure I will ever go to Mexico again. Killings, kidnappings drug wars etc... Heads have to roll after this one.

http://www.fire.org.uk/news/2010/11/15/mexico-hotel-blast-caused-by-swamp-gas.html

An explosion that killed five Canadian tourists and two workers on Sunday at a hotel on Mexico's Caribbean coast was caused by a build-up of gas from a nearby swamp, authorities have said.
Among the dead to have been identified are a man who was married days earlier and a father and his nine-year-old son. The blast in Playa del Carmen hurled the floor of the building through the ceiling and blew out windows, said the attorney general of Quintana Roo state.
Nine people remain in hospital. Initial investigations into the blast at the Grand Riviera Princess hotel suggest gas that exploded beneath the building was from a nearby swamp, state prosecutor Francisco Alor said.

 

[Hazel K]

I heard about that too....good thing the Mr. & Mrs. Cyclist aren't staying at that hotel :shock:

 

[Antares]

That would have been a close call :gasp:.

 

[zack]

Don't buy into the swamp gas theory. Probably happened from a gas leak they neglected to fix.