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Nineteen people are injured after an ethane gas explosion in Agua Dulce, Veracruz, Mexico.
2022-11-29

A mass shooting at a bar in Minatitlán, Veracruz, kills 13 people and injures 4 others.
2019-04-19

An overnight prison riot kills seven police officers in Amatlán de los Reyes, Veracruz, Mexico.
2018-04-1

Mexican federal police and migration agents find 136 migrants in a locked truck abandoned near a freeway in Veracruz. Without water or food, the people from the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, including dozens of minors, were "en route" to the United States.
2018-03-30

Hurricane watches are issued for the state of Veracruz on Mexico's Gulf coast. Category 1 Katia (75 mph-120 km-h) is about 185 miles off the Mexican coast, slowly moving at 3 mph.
2017-09-6

Hurricane Franklin, the Atlantic Ocean's first hurricane of the season, is set to hit Mexico's Gulf state of Veracruz tonight or tomorrow morning. The category 1 storm is expected to lose strength as it moves inland through the oil-producing state.
2017-08-9

State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos reports the death toll has risen to 28 from Wednesday's explosion at Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo's Clorados 3 petrochemical plant in the Gulf port city of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz. Some workers are still missing while 18 others remain hospitalized. Officials say the explosion came from an unspecified leak. The plant produces the hazardous industrial chemical vinyl chloride.
2016-04-22

Twenty people are killed after a bus carrying amateur football players and fans plunges into a river in Veracruz, eastern Mexico.
2016-01-10

Mexican Drug War: 14 corpses are found in an abandoned truck in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
2012-06-12

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Mexican state of Veracruz.
2011-04-7