| | |  News from Around Banderas Bay 
Up to Fifteen Wounded in Bar Explosion
 PVNN - August 26, 2010
| | Police reported that at least 100 people were in the bar at the time of the explosion. (Ulises Zamarroni/El Universal) | |
See related article: Source Says Bar Explosion an 'Isolated Incident'
Puerto Vallarta - Paramedics rushed to attend the injured after hearing of an explosion at Pink Cheladas Bar on Francisco Villa when an explosion rocked the establishment at midnight on Thursday, leaving several people seriously injured.
The Pink Chelada is located on Avenida Francisco Villa in front of the Civil Protection building in the Las Gaviotas subdivision, where a game was being played at a nearby soccer field, which is why there were so many people at the bar and in the area.
The director of the Municipal Civil Protection Unit, Jose Pelayo, whose facilities are just meters from the site of the explosion, reported that his staff and the local police officers assigned to this area were the first on the scene, and called emergency services to tend to the wounded.
Over 100 were in the bar at the time of the explosion. As many as fifteen people were reported as injured, most with wounds to the legs, abdomen, chest and face caused by flying shrapnel. The wounded were taken to the Regional Hospital, the Belén Clinic of Pitillal and the Social Security clinic.
The most seriously injured were 30-year-olds Joya Francisco Daniel Martinez, Brenda Elizabeth White Gordian, Farra Jaime Gutierrez and Edgar Araiza Vargas; as well as 27-year-old Jazmín Campina Luciano, 21-year-old Rodrigo Ramos Martínez, and Alejandro Villaseñor Cárdenas and Orlando Langarica García, both 22.
Today, the Mexican Army is protecting the premises while state and municipal police and investigating officers are trying to determine the source of the explosion, which apparently, according to previous experiences, is attributed to a fragmentation grenade.
Translated from ElUniversal.com.mx and PeriodicoQueHay.com.
Update: According to aljazeera.net, Investigators believe the blast was intentional but were unable to confirm media reports it was caused by a grenade, a spokesman for the state prosecutor's office said on Thursday. Mariana Sanchez, Al Jazeera's Latin America correspondent, said there were differing reports about what happened. "We are hearing that gunmen entered the bar and threw a grenade on the table, the other version is that someone was playing with the grenade when it went off," she said.
|
|
| |
Vallarta Weddings
Tell a Friend
Site Map
Print this Page
Email Us