Two dead, 18 injured in Mexico resort blast 

Mexico City: An explosion caused by a gas leak killed two people and left 18 injured on Monday in a restaurant in a beachside tourist town in Mexico's Quintana Roo state, local authorities said.

As per details, the two victims were staff members at the restaurant in popular vacation zone Playa del Carmen.

Eight of the 18 people taken to hospitals after the blast have already been discharged, said officials.

Reportedly, 15 of the injured people were employees at the restaurant.

Gas leaks have been the source of other deadly incidents in popular tourist zones in Mexico. 

In 2018, a US family of four—including two children—was found dead at their vacation condominium in Akumal, about an hour from Cancun, suffocated from gas.  

In 2010, the explosion of an improperly installed gas line at a hotel in Playa del Carmen killed five Canadian tourists and two Mexicans.