Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 06 Jul 2018, 04:49 am Print
Mexico City: At least 24 people were killed as explosions rocked a fireworks depot in Mexico's Tultepec city on Thursday, media reports said.
The explosion reportedly left 40 others injured.
"The biggest blasts took place as police and firefighters arrived at the scene in the town of Tultepec. Emergency workers are among the casualties," reported BBC.
Tultepec is known as the pyrotechnic capital of the country.
The town also hosts Mexico's national pyrotechnics festival every year.
The government of Mexico state said in a statement as quoted by BBC: "Emergency crews attended the call of the first explosion, when a second incident occurred, killing and injuring members of these groups."
The market in the town was also damaged by an explosion in 2016 when 40 people had died.
At least seven people died during an explosion in the town on June 6.
Image: Screengrab from Twitter
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