Mexico: 19 dead in explosions at a fireworks factory

At least 19 people died in a series of explosions at a fireworks factory in Mexico. The accident occurred in the municipality of Tultepec, said the civil defense of the State of Mexico on Twitter. 40 other people were injured. As confirmed by the Red Cross, among the dead were firefighters and police officers

. Helpers and helicopters were at the site of the disaster in northern Mexico, wrote Alfredo Del Mazo on Twitter. On television, it was to see how a high column of smoke was rising. The area around the accident site looked like a battlefield, rubble and debris were visible in the photos. According to the forces, the first explosion occurred in the morning. When help arrived at the site of the disaster in the district of La Saucera, another arrived

The military closed the area. The force of the explosions destroyed the windows of the neighboring buildings, people were shocked. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto expressed his sympathy on Twitter: "I regret the loss of life in the explosion of Tultepec".

Tultepec is the center of Mexican pyrotechnic production. Most factories make firecrackers legal. However, there are still accidents in workshops, warehouses and markets often temporary, since they are barely controlled. Even miners work in the production and sale of firecrackers.

At the end of 2016, more than 40 people were killed in an explosion of the outdoor pyrotechnics market. It was not until early June that seven people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion in a fireworks workshop.