The World : Mexico Blasts Kill 2, Hurt 15

Three huge gasoline tanks exploded at a depot in Guadalupe, Mexico, killing at least two people, officials said. Fifteen people were hospitalized with burns, including four in critical condition, and 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the industrial area near Monterrey in northeast Mexico, 440 miles from Mexico City. Several vehicles parked near the tanks turned to molten metal as the temperature near the fire at times reached 5,400 degrees, Nuevo Leon state police officials said. The blasts occurred at the San Rafael tank farm owned by the government petroleum monopoly, Pemex. A Pemex spokesman said firefighters managed to extinguish the flames in two of the tanks and expected the blaze in the third tank to be put out early today.