2 killed, 18 injured in gas explosion at Mexican resort

Authorities in Mexico say a gas tank has exploded at a beachside restaurant on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, killing two employees and injuring 18 people. The restaurant is in a popular tourist zone of the Playa del Carmen resort, south of Cancun, and three of the injured were customers, though no information on their nationalities was immediately available. The other 15 hurt were restaurant employees. Police in the coastal state of Quintana Roo say 10 of those injured at the Kool Beach restaurant remain hospitalized. It is not the first time that poor management of cooking gas lines has resulted in deadly accidents on Mexico’s Caribbean coast.