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SAN MARTIN TEXMELUCAN, Mexico -- A massive oil pipeline explosion lay waste to parts of a central Mexican city Sunday, incinerating people, cars, houses and trees as gushing crude turned streets into flaming rivers. At least 28 people were killed, 13 of them children, in a disaster authorities blamed on oil thieves. The blast in San Martin Texmelucan, estimated to have affected 5,000 residents in a three-mile radius, scorched homes and cars and left metal and pavement twisted from the intense heat and in some cases burned to ash. Relatives sobbed as firefighters pulled...

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