Dump explodes under luxury hotel

Dump exploded in luxury hotel - 7 dead!
11/15/2010 - 07:40 UHRPlaya del Carmen (Mexico) - Horror in the vacation paradise!

In a gas explosion at a hotel in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen killing 7, 17 were injured. Among the dead: five Canadian tourists.

What had happened?

Enlarge photo gallery dump in hotel-lobby-gas explosion in a Mexican luxury hotel: 7 dead, 17 VerletzteFoto: Reuters1 of obviously were in the lobby of the luxury hotel "Grand Riviera Princess Hotel" organic waste rots. This is a 120 square meter large cavity had formed and filled with gas.

According to Attorney General Francisco Alor, the organic matter had decomposed in the ground. The dump exploded.

The effect - devastating.

In the ground floor of a building of the 12 came the explosion - so intense that parts of the floor were thrown through the roof. Windows shattered, debris flying up to 50 meters in the garden.

An eyewitness told the Canadian broadcaster CBC, under the Canadian death toll was a teenager at the age of 14 or 15 years. The explosion had blown off her "half face" and caused her severe burns, a hotel guest Jeff Zimmerman was quoted as saying.

The explosion had torn into the floor of the hotel lobby, a huge crater.

The hotel with 676 rooms is located in Playa de Carmen, to the east of the country, about 90 miles from Cancun. The region attracts millions of tourists, mostly from the United States, Canada or Europe.

Among the guests of the hotel is also a Canadian wedding party had found.

In the Mexican death toll is the head of security of the hotel and a tour guide.