PICTURES Of Mexico Fuel Pipeline Fire Horror, Death Toll Reaches 85

The number rose from 79 earlier on Sunday after six more deaths were recorded, said Minister of Public Health Jorge Alcocer. The number of those hospitalised dropped from 66 to 58, Alcocer added. In the picture, Staff of Pemex, Petroleos Mexicanos, works the area of a oil pipeline explosion . A massive fireball that engulfed people scooping up fuel spilling from a pipeline ruptured by thieves in central Mexico killed several people and badly burned others. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz)

Hidalgo Governor Omar Fayad highlighted the great "dimension" of the tragedy and extended help to victims' kins, assuring that they will receive financial aid for funerals and that the investigation would continue. Fayad said that it could take "hours, days, weeks or months for the identification" of remains. (AP Photo/Claudio Cruz)