INQUIRER.net: 11 dead, dozens hurt in Mexico fireworks explosion

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11 dead, dozens hurt in Mexico fireworks explosion Mar 16th 2013, 02:19 MEXICO CITY— A truck loaded with fireworks exploded during a religious procession in a rural village in central Mexico on Friday, killing at least 11 people and injuring dozens more, authorities said.   The blast was set off when a firework malfunctioned and landed on the truck, igniting the fireworks it carried, officials said. Seventy people were burned or had other injuries, and at least 45 were taken to hospitals, authorities in the neighboring states of Tlaxcala and Puebla said.   "They were in a procession, they were shooting off rockets and it exploded and fell onto the other ones," said Jose Mateo Morales, director of the Tlaxcala state civil protectio... Keep on reading: 11 dead, dozens hurt in Mexico fireworks explosion Media files: Mexico-fireworks-explosion.jpg (image/jpeg)

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