(The Guardian)- At least 60 people have been injured after an explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital.
Luís Felipe Puente, head of national emergency services, said the number of injuries could rise.
Images broadcast by Milenio TV on Tuesday afternoon show a huge plume of smoke billowing into the sky above the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec, in the state of Mexico.
In 2005, a fire engulfed the same market, touching off a chain of explosions that leveled hundreds of stalls just ahead of Mexico’s Independence Day. A similar fire at the San Pablito Market also destroyed hundreds of stands in September 2006.
Many in Mexico traditionally celebrate holidays – including Christmas and New Year’s – by setting off noisy firecrackers and rockets.
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