The death toll from the horrific Mexico pipeline explosion earlier this month has risen to 114.
This almost doubles the previous figure of 66, while 33 people remain in hospital.
Mexican Health Minister Jorge Alcocer said on Saturday that 46 of those injured in the blast have died in hospital.
He said those remaining in hospital run a high risk of infection in their kidneys, cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
This, he explained, is because they inhaled scalding air that burned their tracheas and bronchial tubes.
Three patients are being treated in Galveston, Texas.
Hundreds of people were in the vicinity of an illegal pipeline tap that spewed gasoline in the town of Tlahuelilpan on January 18 when the liquid caught fire and exploded into a fireball.
Dozens of local residents scrambling to fill up containers with oil were engulfed in flames after the blast.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has launched a major crackdown on rampant fuel theft, which the government said cost the country more than $3 billion last year.
The explosion was one of the worst in recent history, in a country that has suffered hundreds of illegal ruptures to its network of oil and gas pipelines.
