The Ministry of Health of Mexico City informed that the woman, who presented more than 90 percent of burns in her body, died this September 12 at the Magdalena de las Salinas hospital, where she was treated.
The story of Alicia Matías Teodoro
On Wednesday, September 10, Alicia, 49, worked as a checker on Route 71 of Public Transport in the area of the Concordia Bridge, to the East of the Valley of Mexico.
When the explosion of a pipe loaded with 49,500 liters of LP gas was recorded that day, the woman took care of her granddaughter Blueethtwo years old, while the child’s mother – and the victim’s daughter – went to her work center
In a widely widespread video on social networks, recorded by the policeman Sergio Ángel Soriano Buendíaof the Ministry of Citizen Security of the CDMX, it is observed that, seconds after the explosion, the woman walked on a sidewalk with her granddaughter in her arms, until the uniformed intercepted her.
“The child How is it? Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me! Are you well baby?” They were the words of the officer.
Alicia Matías, already without hair and with different parts of her body with burns, walked with the police officer on the Ignacio Zaragoza road until she managed to reach a place to protect himself and wait for her to be transferred to a hospital.
The woman, in the first instance, was admitted to the Emiliano Zapata hospital in Iztapalapa, subsequently to the General Hospital of Zone 53, in Los Reyes, La Paz, and finally taken to the Magdalena de las Salinas hospital, according to the official records.
