Two people are dead and another 18 injured after a gas tank exploded at a beachside restaurant in the popular tourist zone of the Playa del Carmen resort.
Three of the injured people were apparently customers, the other 15 people injured in the blast were also restaurant employees.
Investigators say eight of those injured at the Kool Beach restaurant had been released from hospitals.
State police chief Lucio Hernández wrote in his social media accounts that the blast occurred “in a gas tank in the kitchen of the restaurant.”