At least 10 dead and 60 injured as Explosion rips fireworks market outside Mexico City

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At least 10 dead and 60 injured as Explosion rips fireworks market outside Mexico City

    Nick Allen, Washington

20 December 2016 • 10:48pm

At least 10 people died and 60 were injured as an explosion ripped through Mexico's best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday.

It sent a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky.

There were reports children were among the vicitms.

Continued: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/20/explosion-rips-fireworks-market-outside-mexico-city-injuring/

More: http://www.excelsior.com.mx/

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Continued: http://www.excelsior.com.mx/comunidad/2016/12/20/1135430#imagen-6

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At least 31 dead, 72 hurt in Mexico fireworks market blast
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By Jennifer GONZALEZ COVARRUBIAS, Sofia MISELEM (AFP)     10 hours ago in World
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A massive explosion gutted Mexico's biggest fireworks market, killing at least 31 people and injuring 72, the authorities said.

The conflagration in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec set off a quick-fire series of multicolored blasts that sent a vast cloud of smoke billowing over the capital.

The market had been packed with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional end-of-year festivities. Christmas and New Year parties in many Latin American countries often wrap up with clattering firework blasts.

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/at-least-26-dead-in-mexico-fireworks-market-blast-official/article/482109#ixzz4TTOZFTJO