![Jose Cuervo tequila plant explosion, fire in Mexico kill at least 5 workers](https://assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com/hub/i/r/2024/07/24/01ef92a9-c91a-49a5-bc0b-302d4b781670/thumbnail/1200x630/6ab2e530c07e0a855edbb5a03b679ef0/jose-cuervo-tequila-plant-fire.jpg?v=e2b758f558b9b19612f3e16bc7fd9fcc)
Jose Cuervo tequila plant explosion, fire in Mexico kill at least 5 workers
CBSN
An explosion and fire at a factory that makes Jose Cuervo tequila in Mexico killed at least five people Tuesday, local authorities said.
"So far the deaths of five people are confirmed, workers of the company," the civil protection unit in the western state of Jalisco said in a statement.
Two others were injured, one seriously, the statement added.
![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20240903093544.jpg)
Kinshasa, Congo — An attempted jailbreak in Congo's main prison in the capital left at least 129 people dead, most of them in a stampede, authorities said Tuesday. A provisional assessment showed that 24 inmates were shot dead by "warning" gunshots as they tried to escape from the overcrowded Makala Central Prison in Kinshasa early Monday, Congolese Interior Minister Jacquemin Shabani said on the social platform X.