Sunday, March 17, 2013
fireworks truck exploded during Mexico religious procession
A barter loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious advance in a rural apple in axial Mexico, killing at atomic 13 humans and abasing 154, authorities said.
The bang Friday was set off if a firework malfunctioned and landed on the truck, igniting the fireworks it carried, admiral said.
Seventy humans were austere or had added injuries, and at atomic 45 were in all were in, authorities in the adjoining states of Tlaxcala and Puebla said.
'They were in a procession, they were cutting off rockets and it exploded and fell assimilate the added ones,' said Jose Mateo Morales, administrator of the Tlaxcala accompaniment civilian aegis department.
'It was actual serious.'
Human charcoal and austere clothes were advance about a 100-yard (100-meter) radius, including on rooftops, a columnist at the arena said.
The victims were boot in an anniversary advance in anniversary of Jesus Christ, the angel saint of Jesus Tepactepec, a apple of about 1,000 people, Mateo Morales said.
Tlaxcala Abbey Francisco Moreno said he toured the arena of the bang and went to hospitals to appointment the wounded.
'I adored all who died and said a adoration for them,' the abbey said in his Twitter account.
Fireworks are a archetypal affection of Mexican holidays and religious celebrations but they generally are manufactured, stored and transported beneath alarming conditions, and the country sees alternate baleful explosions.
Jesus Tepactepec is accepted for its handicrafts manufacturing, including baskets and copse figures, and its anniversary religious anniversary draws artisans from adjacent towns who appear to advertise their wares.
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