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Subscribe to RSSThe death toll has risen to 32 in Mexico City after an explosion blasted the lower floors of a skyscraper housing the headquarters of state oil monopoly Pemex. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.
The death toll from a powerful explosion in the Mexico City skyscraper complex housing the offices of state oil monopoly Pemex rose to at least 33, company and government officials said Friday.
Twenty men and 12 women were killed, the company said — while 121 were injured, 52 of whom remain in hospital.
Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto arrived at the Pemex administration complex by helicopter Thursday night to supervise rescue operations, Pemex and the news agency La Prensa reported. Hundreds of Mexican military forces were sent to the complex to "preserve security," officials told newspaper El Universal.
Rescue crews had searched most of the area damaged by the blast by Friday afternoon, said Attorney General Jesus Murillo said. But he added that survivors or more victims could still be found in the most unstable parts, which had not yet been fully checked.
Emilio Lozoya Austin, director general of Pemex, which is short for Petrõleos Mexicanos, told Reuters Friday the the company was "working with the best teams in Mexico and from overseas" to find the cause of the explosion.
He was flying home from a business trip to Asia when the blast occured. He said he extended his condolences "to all the families of Pemex workers who have lost their loved ones."
The explosion took place in the basement garage of the auxiliary building, next to the company's 52-floor tower in a busy commercial and residential area, said Eduardo Sánchez, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
Stringer/Mexico/Reuters
An injured woman is transferred to a stretcher outside the headquarters of state oil giant Pemex in Mexico City on Thursday.
"They're conducting a tour of the building and the area adjacent to the blast site to verify if there are any still trapped so they can be rescued immediately," Sanchez said Thursday.
A government official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said preliminary findings suggested the blast was caused by aged boiler exploding in a building next to the tower, Reuters reported.
The plaster ceiling of the basement collapsed, a spokesman for the local emergency agency said. He described conditions in the tower as "delicate."
The main floor and the mezzanine of the auxiliary building were heavily damaged, along with windows as far as three floors up.
A man who was on the ground floor when the explosion occurred told Forum TV that the first casualties were taken to a clinic in the adjacent office tower, where several thousand people work.
"It shook the building, and then we were evacuated," he said.
Company touted safety record
News of the blast came toward the end of the business day — just a few hours after the company had sent two messages on Twitter celebrating how much it had "reduced our accident rate in recent years," announcing that its "safety indicators" exceeded international standards:
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"An explosion took place in the B2 building of the administrative center," Pemex tweeted just after 4 p.m. local time (5 p.m. ET). "There are injuries and damage on the ground floor and mezzanine," it said, promising further information as it became available.
Pemex initially said the building had been evacuated because of a problem with its electricity supply. It then said there had been an explosion, but it didn't give the cause.
Milenio TV via NBC News
The scene at Pemex headquarters in Mexico City on Thursday after an explosion. There was no official explanation for the blast.
Television images showed people being evacuated — some on office chairs and gurneys. Emergency crews loaded people on stretchers into helicopters and airlifted them out of the area.
"The place shook, we lost power and suddenly there was debris everywhere," Cristian Obele told Milenio news network. "Colleagues were helping us out of the building."
Jose Cuellar, a mechanic who works near the complex, said he was repairing a car when an explosion rocked his entire workshop.
"We went to see and saw people coming out injured," Cuella, 45, told El Universal. "Other people were carrying them."
Edgar Zuniga Jr. and M. Alex Johnson of NBC News, Telemundo and Reuters contributed to this report.
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My kingdom for a copy editor...OMG Kari Huss go back to school and learn some basic English grammar rules. Lose the unnecessary commas and your sentence structure is enough to make a grown person cry.
Sure. You spelled my name wrong, though.
Lynda Elaine - have you read your comments on you newsvine page. How did you get so critical about others writing? Is it a jealousy or do you really think your writing skills are that much better? Maybe your just bitter because someone else wrote a good news piece.
Lynda, I take it you'll be attending the same class?
Hopefully you'll take special note on spelling and sentence structure.
Nice comeback Kari!
Considering the limited, amount of, information, available to, you Kari, it was a good, article.
I wonder how many times that sentence made Lynda cry, if she is in fact a "grown person."
It appears that perhaps some people in Mexico hate oil companies. Maybe their hatred is caused by an industry that epitomizes greed and ecological devastation.
Hey Lynda, brrr! Did it just get cold in here? 'Cause you just got cold busted sucka! OOOOOOH! What happened? Did it hurt? Did it hurt when you got busted?
Just waiting to see when someone comes up with a connection to our guns and gun laws. I am sure some joker will come out of the closet soon.
Lynda, Lynda, Lynda... Thank you for my daily dose of irony.
Lynda
Bet you did not see that coming...
I actually have a leg to stand on criticizing grammar and spelling on the internet, since I was a Technical Editor for quite some time.
But honestly being a Grammar Nazi on the internet gets very old. Fast. And for some reason nobody likes you when you do it.
Plus, every time you talk about it, somebody invariably picks through your post finding mistakes you made while criticizing.
But I still feel, however rude, the original poster's point is valid. I've seen basic spelling and grammar mistakes on NBC News articles before. I'm not in a position to say that there are more or fewer mistakes here than other sites, since that would require actual research. But I would think a professional news organization would filter articles through copy editors before allowing them to be published. And back in the old days you needed to run them past a Fact Checker too, but nowadays I think everybody does their own fact checking on Google.
Riverboy
Hah. Nice Captain Kirk!
Kari's babealious.
I find that "grammar nazis" usually have no personality and are only good at one thing......spelling/grammar.
that thar...Kari Hauus...is the comma boss...LOL...
I started on the inet with a 300 baud modem and a cradle and spelling and punctuation was frowned upon thus the birth of lol and lmfao etc and u instead of you etc. People who make fun of others spelling and puncuation usually get caught and wish they never had tried to correct others. We all get what the story is about and I thought it did real good for a breking story. When you write it for the archives then you have time to run it through the grammar checker and spell checker and sentence strcture. I made two intentional mistakes in this post and probably a few more to give you nitwits who like to critisize other something to do cause you seem to have a ver shallow life....
#facepalm Lynda, Compliments of Kari..... LMAO.
For the record, grammar nazis have been out there forever. They lamented the loss of proper language back when the telegraph was invented. :P
I don't think they blew up the building over spelling or syntax.
I wonder if they shot the bomb out of a gun? (that comment was like a shipwreck)
@breadex.....so did I but it dates us to say so! lol
Kari, you shouldnt have even replied. Let the haters hate. Good luck to you.
Where were you today Big Al? It sounds like the bomber feels just the same as you do about oil companies. How long does it take to get from Las Vegas to Mexico City?
Your sarcastic response is hardly professional. The criticism of your grammatical errors in this story is accurate. You should either re-evalute your composition skills or develop a thicker skin.
Comma, comma, comma, comma-cam-eelee-an ..er something.
The written word is ultimately about communication, and grammar is simply a tool to aid that communication. If the written word ultimately provides the necessary communication, then making a scene about grammar, which in many cases is as arbitrary as our strange assignments of bad language, just proves one is not able to understand what matters.
Remember, in this age of the internet, that writers are often forced to write extremely quickly in order to provide the story before others or before the story becomes irrelevant. To expect perfection under this scenario is unreasonable. As long as what needs to be communicated gets communicated, we shouldn't be obsessive about grammar.
Guest - It is communication. And if it is not effective communication it can be hazardous.
You seem to have come to accept mediocrity as the norm. Good for you.
that which is is that which is not is not
See how difficult it is to decipher without correct punctuation and capitalization?
I beleeve yu all red it no mater how it was spelled! Why isnt this a gun story?
Good grief! Don't those Mexicans known you're supposed to blow up the oil refineries if you want to raise the gas prices, NOT the office buildings?
Kari is hot....
Global warming protest.
Another news site said the explosion is being blamed on faulty aged equipment in the basement of the building.
If governments don't start taking care of infrastructure and maintenance, the Mayan prediction will come true a little at a time.
Very sorry for the loss of life. No one should have to die because of the negligence and penny pinching of their employer, especially when the employer is their government.
Some people died and all you care about is the grammer of the person reporting the story.
Linda, We don't need no stinking commas. :-)
Could the cause be terrorism? Sure sounds like it. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they had threats prior to this.
Is it any wonder why there are so many people that can read an article but not understand what is being reported?
There reading for grammar and spelling and not content. If you focused on comprehension instead of syntax you would probably have a much better understanding of the subject.
On to the real subject, explosion, parking garage, sound familiar?
@Lynda Elaine
After that drubbing, if you ever post again, it will surprise me, lol.
Did you have trouble understanding the article? I looked through it, it seemed to have quite a bit of punctuation and capitalization - quite enough for me to understand what it was about.
Let's eat, Grandma!
or
Let's eat Grandma!
(commas matter)
To take it a step further:
Capitalizing and adding punctuation, can you make the following into a logical, grammatically correct English sentence?
Jim while John had had had had had had had had had had had more of an impact on the teacher.
Just thought I'd add a little humor and thought provocation to this thread so we can move on. I actually had to go back and one more 'had'. :)
Would it be Karma biting a utility company in the @ss if the safety compliance officer was killed? Too bad it didn't take out the CEO too. Sorry that innocent people died and were injured, the others, not too sorry. Fix your infrastructure.
@ Mexico Is The AntiChrist, don't use 9/11. People are too dumb to understand about freefall and gravity. That isn't taught on Big Brother and American Idol, and whatever stupid tv shows that rot societies brains.
We can see why nothing gets done in DC with all the side bar comments. It's called a lack of focus. The content of the article matters more. The rest is just hair splitting and diverts attention away from the story. This makes me wonder how many of you really care about content. That is unless your one of those people that need to stop reading at every period or slightly rest at a comma before reading on. That would make you a slow reader.
My point is that we in a conversation allow and edit out people that say "Ya Know" a lot. We edit for content.
I would much rather see a story that had punctuation mistakes over accurate information mistakes.
Now do we know why, or how this explosion happened?
How many times has it been said in venues where stability is needed and emergencies are a concern; hospitals, schools, psych institutions, etc. "It's 'quiet' right now." DON'T USE THE "Q" WORD!!! (Or words like it.) No sooner than someone does that something like this follows! Condolences to the suffering. (I double checked my commas; they seem okay, safe to post, almost.)
Jerry lotsanumbers and MSpielman = pompous a$$e$
How many published articles have you two written?
the morale of the story...Tis better to be a comma queen...than a drama queen...now the rest of the story...do i get a Paul Harvey Award....for saying that...
The content of many NBC articles is much more of a problem than the grammar and spelling.
Lynda Elaine:
I appreciate your hatred for "unnecessary commas" but I think one is necessary in your critique of Ms. Huus: You wrote: "Lose the unnecessary commas and your sentence structure ..."
You need a comma after commas. Otherwise it sounds (at first read) like you are telling her to lose sentence structure. And I don't think that is what you meant.
Does anyone agree with me??
(And, oh yeah, I regret that all those people died.)
Correct grammar and punctuation are not important?
Let's eat, Grandma!
Lets eat Grandma!
Ms. Huus (did I spell that right?), you need to either learn or re-learn how to compose grammatically correct sentences or else you need to be fired. Along with that, the fact that you made a "snarky" comment regarding your inability to write correctly demonstrates that you are not "up to snuff" regarding being a jounalist or a writer. It's a shame that a large corporation will pay you a rather comfortable wage to execute what your are suppose to do improperly. If you have any problem with what I've said, feel free to contact me personally. Until then, I will take it that you are an inept journalist and writer. You should thank your lucky stars that you are kept employed by a firm that does not care about quality.
Just the continuation of the Drug Cartel indicating that they want control of the Oil and Gas Bounty of Mexico. The President, of Mexico, has to protect the people. Mexico is vulnerable as the people are. Look at the state of Guerrero where the Peasants have to protect themselves by forming their own protection squads. It is so dangerous that General Motors Closed it Cupuan Del Rio Proving Grounds in the State of Michoican. This Country is in deep trouble. That is why Border Protection is so important for the US. This Crap can spill over. Obama does not want to spend the money to Protect the Borders adequately!
More money has been spent protecting the borders under Obama than under any other president. There are more personnel than ever before patrolling the borders. But facts don't matter, anything you can say to make Obama look bad is fair, right? I bet you would like to see more spending on the border so that you could come here and whine about Obama spending too much money.
yeah it can spill over the border just how all those american guns spilled over into mexico............
You are correct super x. Everything bad is Obama's fault, global warming, Muslim fundamentalists, the economic recession (oops! that one was on Bush), Sacco and Vanzetti, Justin Bieber... Obama is History's Greatest Monster.
Super X,
General Motors Closed at Cupuan Del Rio because of the recesion in USA. If their main customer USA is in recesion NOT buying then they have to close! Same happened in another state; in Silao, Guanajuato.
I know that because my very close friends work in this plant and my father in law worked at General Motors here in USA. I know exactly why they closed some plants everywhere! Forget the fear....People is scare of what happens in Mexico because they choose to believe what the media tells them. And the media exaggerates the note to sell more... :-)
Well Said Rocio, I bet super x is a Fox news fan.
Who knows exactly what has gone wrong here.
Just that, rich FOXY/Republican people should only be concerned if a BANK in the Cayman Islands blows up.
Is it just me, or does Lynda Elaine need a few less comma's in her life?
@super x
You and Lynda Elaine have just received intense virtual assbeatings. How does it feel :)
Ah thunk it wuz a reel good stery an it had pitchurz. hyuh!
Sorry about yer coma tho.
super x --
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
Mark Twain
Don't worry, Eric Holder will keep the drug lords armed.
River Boy
I suggest you do some basic research on the border issues and the Border Patrol before making comments like that. I live six blocks from the border fence in SE Cochise County in Arizona, which is ground zero for the smuggling of drugs and people into this country! Yes, I will agree that Customs and Border Patrol have more boots on the ground than ever before. That is a fact. The problem is that they are saddled with ever increasing restrictive rules of engagement coming from Eric Holder and Janet "do nothing" Napolitano that allow them to get only a fraction of what actually comes through the border. The fact is that our southern border has more holes in it than my wife's favorite pasta strainer! I have illegals running the alleys behind my house almost every night. The only thing that keeps them out of my yard is three large dogs who don't like strangers and get very loud when approached. Many of my neighbors have not been so fortunate. For any that are interested in the true state of our Southern borders, I strongly recommend a book called "The Reaper's Line: Life and Death on the Mexican Border". It is an eye opener and was written by a man named Lee Morgan who was a Border Patrol and ICE Special Agent in Southern Arizona for over 20 years.
They make too much money in Washington to control the border on the illegal drugs, as does California it takes a crook to deal with one!
This is either the work of the drug cartels or the eco-Nazi's. Both suck!
Mike -
No, Eric Holder won't keep them armed. Your AZ Attorney General gun-nut will be just fine handing over confiscated weapons to the cartels, though. Why don't you read up on what really happened in "Fast and Furious?" Or do big words scare you?
cutmeloose -
Yeah, they make too much money because idiots like you and yours won't even think of legalization as a viable solution to the drug problem. The DEA makes so much money off our taxes, then again off of "seizures and forfeitures" done illegaly that they don't ever have to give back. The cartels make way more money than they ever could if this stuff was legal. Our @!$%#ing "liberal" president wouldn't even discuss the notion at the meeting of the Americas.
We have a drug problem in the US: they're called Puritans.
So let's look at my comment that you are referring to. It was in reply to somebody who said that Obama doesn't want to spend money on the border. I replied that he has spent more money than any president and we now have more personnel on the border than ever before, and that's it. You tell me to do some basic research, and then immediately after say that what I said in my comment was indeed a fact. If the person I was responding to would have posted "the borders are 100% sealed and safe" I would have brought up the same issues you did, but that was neither the topic nor a relevant response. So please tell me where I need to do research and get my facts straight, what incorrect statement did I make? Did I say the borders are safe or did I just correct an ignorant individual who stated Obama doesn't want to spend money on the border? And since you are making suggestions for me, my suggestion for you is reading comprehension courses.
Much of the commentary today is irrelavent to the the article. Did anyone read,
....the blast was caused by aged boiler exploding....?
Riverboy
I was simply stating a personal opinion and meant no offense. If I did so, please accept my apologies.
I heard that it was probably a boiler explosion, which is quite possible. they rarely happen in the US anymore, but can be very powerful in a large, poorly maintained boiler.
The old, flame-tube boilers are especially susceptible to this, IIRC. Those things have only 2 settings: on and off. No flame control, generally only good for one flow rate, and (if they're old enough) you can't ever shut them down or the metal contraction will cause the thing to leak like a sieve.
I guess for a skyscraper they may have to use steam. I suppose it depends on how much they want to pump it. A lot of large-area campuses and buildings (footprint x number of stories = huge) use steam so they can have central heating and then either use steam directly (control nightmare) or use a hot water heat exchanger (really inefficient) to get the heat around. Much more efficient to create localized hot water heaters (yes, we still call them boilers) that serve several floors, and use a point-of-use methodology with variable flow.
Either that, or this was a big old domestic hot water heater. In which case, localization is still a @!$%#load more efficient. But, then, this building was probably built before the 1990s. Building designs are fads in and of themselves.
NBC.com is regularly and overwhelmingly filled with poor writing, bad grammar and sloppy reporting. It is annoying and disgraceful. But hey, thanks for the attitude Ms. Huus.
I wonder what attitude is that? Pointing out to someone they spelled someone's name wrong, more like justified.
I found not one spelling error in the article and found it an easy, factual read.
"The adjacent Pemex officer tower" ... I was just wondering what an officer tower was?
Funny how our brains ignore misspellings like that and we assume the correct word from the context. Sort of like the ability to read words that have the letters jumbled as long as the first and last letter are correct.
Sure. It can be refreshing to interact with readers/critics.
Kari,
Don't waste your time with some of the deadbeats on this vine, they are just sore that you have a great job and they are losers getting their kick criticizing others, first graders. With that million dollar smile you are going straight to the top.
Full steam ahead ...
Bush's Fault
No, man: Bush did 9/11. Remember? Or were you a toddler then...
Numerous companies have requested their Boards Permission to return to the United States to insure the products do not get caught up in the expanding Drug Cartel Violence. BMW wants no Part of the Arera nor does VW
Well, if they return back home then they will have to hire MORE expensive hand labor. Which means MORE expensive products for the customer, also means less jobs in Mexico and more hungry people comming to work here. What a shame!
"Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" :) sorry I couldn't resist
"Who's scruffy-looking?" ;)
Jesus wept...How are you failing to get a great Star Wars reference?...How?
I definitely got the reference, "Who's scruffy looking"? was the response from the original "Star Wars" movie--the very next line spoken after the "nerf-herder" line.
I always assumed a nerf-herder looked something like this:
http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/4613/herder.jpg
(sorry, just a quick 10 min photoshop :) )
My mistake, I didn't remember that (it's been awhile, should have asked my kid...who would have known)...Apologies!!!!!
That's hilarious Chris!
that's a fine nerf herder...Chris...LOL...
Ty! lol
Many of the Clothing Companies also want out. The City of Mexico has to be better at protecting the citizens in the Area. You cannot walk the streets and know your safe. Make sure you do not take a taxi down there!
@super x, I am a white mostly Irish guy from Michigan. I lived and worked in "The City of Mexico", as you call it, for three years from 2008 to 2011. I moved freely all around the city on foot, bike, car, train, subway, bus, and taxi. I NEVER felt unsafe in ANY place I went in three years. I was alone much of the time and my Spanish is awful. I honestly can't say the same about most large U.S. cities that I have been too. Who'da thunk it? Mexico City is wonderful.
I live 35 miles south of Mexico City. While I prefer to avoid it like all big cities (mainly because of the traffic), my friends who live there love it. It's considered the safest large city in Mexico.
Our neighbors just bought a weekend place there because it has so much going on!
Chachito, there are bad areas like any city, but you are clearly very out of date.
Grammar is not their forte!
When I first read the story, I didn't look at the author's name - just assumed that English (American) wasn't the author's primary language.
I have very low expectations for articles on this site.
It is so great to live in the US. Thank God we are as safe as any in the world. Keep up the good work Republicans and Democrats at the Home Front Protection!
I hope you're being sarcastic. If not there are a few orphans and widows in New York who might disagree with you.
Kari Huss. The pictures say it all. People get after you and the poor people are suffering. It's amazing the bloggers are so intolerant. God Bless YOU!
Hey thanks.
So, Kari, because super x said something so nice, you decided not to inform him that he spelled your name wrong too?
Kari,
CO brings up a valid question. Do you only correct posters who are rude? Lynda Elaine is obviously rude, but she did contribute to your article with her "click' just as much as Super X did, right? Yet you did not correct Super X on the misspelling of your name.
It's Obama's fault!
Oh Darn! I was just going to put that in a comment! LOL
I'll beat you to this one. The ultra liberal leftists Communist, Nazis will do anything to take the attention off Obama and his attempt to take over our country and enslave us all!
It's Hillary's fault.
Does anyone Really know WHERE Eric Holder was about the time that building blew up...????
Its old news about him shipping guns to the cartel, but bombs...? Somebody should check this out...
Terrorism is alive and well. I wouldn't be surprised if this was back by the cartels, but we'll know more later. Right now, I just send condolences to the victims and family and friends of said victims.
Oil company? black gold? money? money trouble? Did someone figure it out that money can be trace on paper or as a paper? Meanwhile, oil or black gold can be trace and there then ends with no more tracks to follow.
Onto the real subject, the catholic pope himself got blinded by blind faith to unable to figure that out, how can the catholic pope run now with the vatican as "dead weight"? One billion catholic is in unity with the catholic pope who is in unity with catholic priests. Where's the weak link with abundant news of molesting priests? In b for business, the weak link is blank-for-you-fill.
Rule of thumb. Make sure your money is traceble. Then run and they will never find you as long as him the rich chinese can be employ to trace for you when you are well again.
Motive: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2013/01/heydar_aliyev_statue_mexico_city_told_azerbaijan_that_the_monument_to_the.html
In addition to finding many of the posters on these boards to be deranged in their views on the content of the articles I am also amazed at the ongoing attacks launched at the authors of the articles for grammatical mistakes.
Journalism is dead- but news lives on.
If classical mastery of form and structure are largely lacking, the news still gets out.
People like me may take the time to try to write well- but we aren't being paid by the word.
Bottom line: give me the information.
I can think for myself; if you no longer have the time to feed it to us with the polished accomplishment common in the day when writers were rewarded for the skillful presentation of difficult ideas, just convey as much raw information as possible- we'll get along swimmingly.
The cardinal sin is omissions intended to lead dullards to some inevitable conclusion.
Avoid that, and I'm fine with a few errors.
singe,Aside from the grammar discussion do you have an opinion or comment on the content of this article?
W.T.F.?
Was in "El Ciudad" last summer. Good place for a summer vacation, and a trip to the dentist.
they'll never know what or who caused it because the officials in mexico will be to afraid to investigate or to corrupt
Praying for the Families. We will all die one day. When we close our eyes in this world, we wake up in the next. Then its Heaven or Hell. God sent His son Jesus to die for our sins so we don't have to go to Hell. All you have to do is accept Jesus as your saviour and repent of your sins. This is the truth. You will leave this earth. When you open your eyes again in the next world, your opinions will not matter, only Truth.
This is what you hope...you never know, you may have chosen the wrong God to follow, because every religion says their God is the only God and you can only meet Him following their way.
Good Luck!
Good article Kari Huus. "It's the end of the world as we know it.......but I feel fine.." : )
I smell me some MUSLIMS !!
No, no, no, no, no... Paul, really: we did that one already, remember? Saddam Hussein was the bad guy "WANTED" back then. Now it's Venezuela we're after, Paul. You have to keep up: this time, we could blame that guy Hugo and go after him (besides, there's oil there as well).
Old Dick Che must be having some wet dreams right now...
Either that or your neighbor has a Billy Goat.
Gee Alex,that Dick Cheney must have some powerful mojo,alot more than Obama has eh?
coming to a theatre near you.
took the words from my keyboard- as soon as this country is assimilated by el Mehico this will become our daily norm
Drug cartel violence is only one possibility.
Why the auxiliary building?
Why not the main structure?
That would surely have caused more damage and more casualties....
There are certainly a lot of unanswered questions, but two possibilities present themselves immediately: the auxiliary structure had poor security, or there was a specific target who worked in that building- and someone believed the collateral damage was acceptable to achieve their assassination.
I guess we will all have to wait and see when more news comes in.I know that these employees must have been terrified.
yeah, the boiler targeted itself
Condolences and prayers go to the victims' family and friends.
Maintenance may be to be reviewed.
Joe Biden will get right on this.