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12 people dead scores injured after massive explosion rips through fireworks market outside Mexico City

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>At least 12 are dead and 70 are injured in raging inferno after giant explosion courses through fireworks market in Mexico<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>The explosion on Tuesday afternoon razed all 300 stalls at the San Pablito Market in Tultepec&comma; near Mexico City<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170101&semi;"><strong>Huge plume of smoke seen above the open-air market<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<span class&equals;"embed-youtube" style&equals;"text-align&colon;center&semi; display&colon; block&semi;"><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"AcF4WF8nZuA" data-param-rel&equals;"1" data-param-showsearch&equals;"0" data-param-showinfo&equals;"1" data-param-iv&lowbar;load&lowbar;policy&equals;"1" data-param-fs&equals;"1" data-param-hl&equals;"en-US" data-param-autohide&equals;"2" data-param-wmode&equals;"transparent" width&equals;"620" height&equals;"349" layout&equals;"responsive"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;AcF4WF8nZuA" placeholder><amp-img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;AcF4WF8nZuA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover"><noscript><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;AcF4WF8nZuA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" loading&equals;"lazy" decoding&equals;"async" alt&equals;"YouTube Poster"><&sol;noscript><&sol;amp-img><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;span>&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"articleIconLinksContainer"><strong>Large explosion at fireworks market in Tultepec&comma; Mexico<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>Just as the fireworks intensive Yuletide season bears down on Mexico city&comma; the largest fireworks market in the country was rocked by a huge fire leaving a dozen dead and scores injured&comma; in the fireworks loving nation&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">The ensuing blaze razed Mexico&&num;8217&semi;s best-known fireworks market about 15 miles away&comma; on the northern outskirts of the capital&comma; reports <a class&equals;"" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;bnonews&period;com&sol;news&sol;index&period;php&sol;news&sol;id5553" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow">BNO News<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The fiery explosion occurred around 2&colon;50 pm Tuesday&comma; destroying the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec&comma; which had more than 300 stalls&period; Video  footage shows a huge plume of smoke billowing in the sky accompanied by the intermittent bursts of the exploding fireworks going off mid-air&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Rescuers couldn&&num;8217&semi;t enter for a while until the rockets were done exploding and the secondary explosions continued more than an hour afterwards&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Officials and civilians were seen carrying away one of the injured while fireworks went off in the background&period; Some of those injured reportedly&comma; have burns on up to 90 per cent of their bodies&period; Some have other serious injuries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"clear"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-115768" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;large-explosion-at-fireworks-market-in-tultepec-mexico-5s&period;png" alt&equals;"Large explosion at fireworks market in Tultepec&comma; Mexico&period;5s&period;png" width&equals;"823" height&equals;"471" &sol;><&sol;div>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>Mexico&&num;8217&semi;s San Pablito Market in Tultepec explode in an unintended blaze of fireworks Tuesday afternoon&comma; that left 12 people dead and over 70 people injured<&sol;strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-115760" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;mexicos-san-pablito-market-in-tultepec2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"mexicos-san-pablito-market-in-tultepec2" width&equals;"915" height&equals;"610" &sol;><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>Firefighters and first responders walk through the debris <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-115759" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;mexicos-san-pablito-market-in-tultepec4&period;jpg" alt&equals;"mexicos-san-pablito-market-in-tultepec4" width&equals;"915" height&equals;"610" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>A vibrant market is reduced to ashes and the rubble after an explosion ripped through the market with less than a week to Christmass<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption">The blast could be heard and seen from miles away<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Tultepec Mayor Armando Portuguez Fuentes told BNO News that 12 people had died and 70 had been injured in the blast&period; The explosion could be heard and seen from miles away&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Photos taken after the blast show market stalls reduced to charred remains&comma; with most of the market blown to smithereens&period; Rescuers can be seen looking through piles of rubble&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A fire engulfed the same market in 2005&comma; setting off a chain of explosions that destroyed hundreds of stalls just ahead of Mexico&&num;8217&semi;s Independence Day&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A similar fire at the San Pablito Market also destroyed hundreds of stands in September 2006&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-115762" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;residents-combed-through-the-ashes-and3-the-rubble-after-an-explosion-ripped-through-the-market&period;png" alt&equals;"residents-combed-through-the-ashes-and3-the-rubble-after-an-explosion-ripped-through-the-market" width&equals;"684" height&equals;"437" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"imageCaption"><strong>The body count was a dozen people dead and 70 injured&period; residents go through the charred remains of it&&num;8217&semi;s more than 300 stalls<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"imageCaption"> Many in Mexico traditionally celebrate holidays — including Christmas and New Year&&num;8217&semi;s — by setting off firecrackers and rockets&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;San Pablito Market&comma; the largest in the state of Mexico&comma; has official permission to sell pyrotechnics&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Tutelpec&comma; which is about 25 miles north of Mexico City&comma; has 50&comma;000 inhabitants&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Aerial footage taken in the aftermath of the explosions shows clouds of white cloud all above the devastated market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;

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