Overview
- The leak originated from a tanker inside the Cosoleacaque petrochemical complex late Friday into early Saturday.
- Officials ordered preventive evacuations within a roughly 1.5 km radius, affecting the Buena Vista area, and opened shelters at UBR Cualipan and a municipal facility.
- Boulevard Instituto Tecnológico and nearby roads were closed during the response and reopened before midnight after firefighters and Pemex crews contained the release.
- More than fifty displaced residents were transferred to shelters in stable condition, according to local authorities.
- Protección Civil, security and transit agencies, the Red Cross, and Pemex teams are monitoring the site, and authorities announced an investigation to determine the cause of the tanker leak.