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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | December 2007 
Mexico Utility Says Plant Explosion Not Sabotage
 Jason Lange - Reuters
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 |  | It was definitively not an attack. The incident happened inside the substation so the short circuit was very intense and violent.
- Jorge Gutierrez |  | |
Mexico City – An explosion at a power plant in Mexico City late Monday left millions of people without electricity, but authorities ruled out sabotage.
The head of the local power company said the explosion was caused by a short circuit at the plant's substation, dismissing speculation it could be another attack by a leftist rebel group that has bombed energy pipelines in recent months.
It was “definitively not (an attack). The incident happened inside the substation so the short circuit was very intense and violent,” Jorge Gutierrez, head of state-run power company Luzy Fuerza, told local radio early Tuesday.
Gutierrez said the explosion, which happened just before midnight, left 3 million people without electricity across Mexico City and surrounding communities.
He said power had already been completely restored.
The Marxist-inspired Popular Revolutionary Army blew up oil and natural gas pipelines in July and September attacks, and has threatened more bombings unless two missing activists it says the government is holding are returned.
(Editing by Vicki Allen) |
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