TITLE: Mexican pipeline explosion: Found her beloved

On Jan. 18, 2019, a gasoline pipeline exploded in Tlahuelilpan, in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. The blast killed at least 135 people and injured dozens more. The explosion was particularly deadly because large crowds of people had gathered at the scene to steal fuel. It took about four hours for responders to extinguish the fire. After the fire, the authorities let the family of the deads enter the scene to look for their beloved. And I as the photographer took photos to show a story where a mother found her beloved son dead in the explosion and cried in front of her son’s remains.

AUTHOR: Yuewei Xin (China)

My name is Yuewei Xin, photojournalist of Xinhua News Agency, now based in Mexico City, Mexico. Xinhua is the biggest and most influential media organization in China, as well as the largest news agency in the world in terms of correspondents worldwide. Xinhua operates more than 170 foreign bureaux worldwide, and maintains 31 bureaux in China. Xinhua owns more than 20 newspapers and a dozen magazines, and it publishes in several languages, besides Chinese, including English, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese and Korean, also publishing in cyberspace.