The vehicle blew up on a bridge in the populous Iztapalapa district in the capital's east, leaving 19 people with second- and third-degree burns, civil protection official Myriam Urzua said.
Images distributed on television and social networks show the moment of the powerful explosion.
Several other vehicles were damaged in the explosion, the causes of which are not yet known.
The smoke from the inferno reached a nearby trolleybus station, one of the main modes of transport in the city of 9.2 million inhabitants.
Mexico is no stranger to disasters linked to fuel trucks and hydrocarbon infrastructure.
The worst occurred in January 2019, when a fire and subsequent explosion on a pipeline being looted killed 137 people in the town of Tlahuelilpan, in the central state of Hidalgo - AFP
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