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Wed 09 Sep 2010One killed in Mexican refinery blast
An explosion at a major Mexican refinery yesterday killed one worker and injured 10 others.
Pemex, the world's seventh largest crude producer and a large fuel importer, said a 32-year-old engineer was killed and two workers suffered serious burns on more than 75 per cent of their bodies when a compressor failure at the Cadereyta refinery's gas oil hydrotreater triggered an explosion and a fire.
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