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Mexican officials said a gas leak Saturday triggered ane.\pJ at about 8:30 a.m. that leveled a two-story cement buildingccj ing a restaurant and clothing stores. The blast also flattenedanj boring three-level shopping center where a dentist office,phe and souvenir shops were located. Six people were killed by the explosion and fourteenraorei hospitalized; three of them initially in critical condition,pobetj Witnesses said the ground shook and a thick cloud of dasi the air in the shopping district located about two blocks fkn international bridge over the river that separates Mexico United States. Jacobo Gaytan, 27, hud just finished mopping the floor of his candy stand in the entrance to the shopping centernfej heard a loud thud and felt a gust of wind lift him from the “When I got up. I was bleeding and had pieces of glass! my body.” Gaytan said. His face and arms were coveredwiii Investigators said the blast, which shattered windows op down the street, appeared to be accidental. “It’s known it was a gas leak, but whether it came restaurant or the dentist office is still under investigation.' Cerecedo, director of public safety for Nuevo Progreso. The town of 15,000 is across the U.S. border from Pm Texas, and is a popular tourist destination. The businesses were closed but employees were in the bui cleaning and preparing to open. Cerecedo said. Insurgents Continued from page 1A the dead were probably insurgents. Fallujah residents took advan tage of the lull in fighting to bury their dead in two soccer fields. One of the fields had rows of freshly dug graves, some marked on headstones as children or w ith the names of women. The Fallujah violence spilled over to the nearby western entrance of Baghdad, where gunmen shot down an American AH-64 Apache helicopter. As a team moved in to secure the bodies of the two dead crew men. a large force of tanks and troops pushed down the high way outside the Iraqi capital, aiming to crush insurgents. Gunmen have run rampant in the Abu Ghraib district west of Baghdad for three days, attacking fuel convoys, killing a U.S. soldier and two American civilians and kidnap ping another American. The captors of Thomas Hamill, an American who works for a U.S. contractor in Iraq, threatened to kill and burn him unless U.S. troops end their assault on Fallujah, west of Baghdad, by 6 a.m. Sunday. The deadline passed with no word on Hamill's fate. The Arab TV station Al- lubai Arabiya reported that insK kidnapped seven Chiness of Fallujah on Sunday cm citing Chinese dipta sources. No further deiaib immediately available. Insurgents who other foreigners this wi releasing some capws. Briton was freed, and oMf nappers said they me hr eight captives of various alities. Other insurgents kidnapped two Japan and a woman said Saturday would free their captivesri 24 hours, but they had nott^esich freed by Sunday night. The U.S. military on Si reported 12 more U.S.soli killed in fighting on Frida) Saturday — half of tta Baghdad. The deaths brori 59 the number of Amenci dier killed since the newfr® violence erupted April 4 900 Iraqis have same period. At least soldiers have died in Ira) the w ar began in March I Sporadic battles in Fall wounded two Marines, aid bodies of 11 Iraqis werebro to a mosque being clinic. A Marine spokesman troops responding to killed “a significantniimte rent Th fighters. A Cobra helitif stor fired rockets and missiles* ni °r came under ground fire,ks F//?ST YELL 2004 September 10, 2004 Reed Arena THE TEXAS AGGIE YELL LEADERS Present il com La esid nive At lare Th vard all, id. “T mfei iordi To iser e av “A fedivii I Th ‘payee major Th RHi Texa: achie STUDENTS BEA T THE RUSH-0 YOUR TICKETS NOW!! 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