Mexico’s Pemex: Death toll 7 from March 15 fuel depot blast

MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s state-run oil company says the death toll has risen to seven from an explosion at a fuel storage and distribution depot in the central state of Guanajuato.

Petroleos Mexicanos says in a statement that two workers who had been hospitalized following the March 15 blast died Thursday.

Two Pemex employees and three private-company workers had died previously.

One person remains in the hospital.