A truck carrying dynamite blew up after colliding with another vehicle in
Northern Mexico
Saturday night, killing at least 37 people.
Officials say the victims include three reporters who were on the scene covering the crash.
Police say a fire broke out after the initial accident and the dynamite went off, causing a giant explosion near the town of
Sacramento
.
A federal police official says 37 people were killed and 150 were injured.
He says the blast left a crater three-by-12 metres in the concrete.
Explosions rocked the southern part of Mexico, ripping apart at least five pipelines in explosions the state oil company say were caused by sabotage.
No one was killed or hurt in the early-morning blasts that forced the evacuation of 12 thousand people, however two elderly women suffered heart attacks and died.
A small left-wing guerrilla group claimed responsibility for an attack on a major Pemex gas pipeline in July.
After those attacks, the Mexican government scrambled to increase security at strategic locations, but it is not clear what precautions were in place when the explosions occurred.
Natural gas futures jumped in
New York
on the news, and
Mexico
's stock market opened lower amid reports of possible sabotage.
Oil and related taxes account for more than one third of the Mexican government's revenue.