Emergency room entrance at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest
The emergency room entrance at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest. Courtesy of UCSD

Victims were rushed to UCSD Medical Center for treatment Friday after an apparent gas explosion in an apartment building in Tijuana, Mexico.

“We are treating three patients,” confirmed UCSD spokesperson Scott Lafee.

FOX 5 San Diego said the explosion was reported around 11 a.m. at a building on Calle Alba Roja, near Estadio Caliente, where the Club Tijuana “Xolos” soccer team plays.

The hospital had no immediate information on the patients.

A woman outside UC San Diego Medical Center told FOX 5 she had family members including a 2-year-old boy, a 12-year-old girl, and a 30-year-old woman, getting treatment there after being injured in the explosion.

Updated 5:36 p.m. Dec. 25, 2020

— City News Service