Mexican authorities say a gas tank explosion at a beachside restaurant of a Caribbean resort has killed two people and injured 18.
The restaurant is in a popular tourist zone of the Playa del Carmen resort, south of Cancun.
No information has been released about the two dead or 18 injured, however, there are reports some of the victims are tourists.
Quintana Roo state police said eight of those injured at the Kool Beach restaurant required hospitalisation.
State police chief Lucio Hernández wrote in his social media accounts that the blast occurred "in a gas tank in the kitchen of the restaurant".
Poor management of gas lines have resulted in deadly accidents on Mexico's Caribbean coast in the past decade.
In 2018, a gas leak in a water heater caused the deaths of an American couple and their two children in the resort town of Tulum, south of Playa del Carmen.
In 2010, the explosion of an improperly installed gas line at a hotel in Playa del Carmen killed five Canadian tourists and two Mexicans.
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