On late Tuesday afternoon, a tragic explosion at Jose Cuervo’s La Rojeña distillery in Tequila, Mexico, killed six people and injured two others, “The New York Times” reports. The next morning, a fire broke out at the distillery, though it’s currently unclear whether anyone was inside the distillery at the time, according to the publication “El Mexicano.”
Surveillance footage shared by the Times shows that around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, a burst of flames erupted from La Rojeña distillery, catapulting what appears to be a large metal tank into the air. According to Jalisco authorities, the cause of the initial fire remains unknown, but it caused a boiler to explode and set four 60,000-gallon tanks ablaze.
