Experts scour site of deadly explosion at market

Mexico City: Teams of forensic investigators have begun poring over the charred remains of fireworks market outside Mexico City after a series of blasts killed at least 31 people and injured dozens more in a disaster marked by disbelief and tears.

Videos of the blasts at the San Pablito market showed a spectacular flurry of pyrotechnics exploding high into the sky as a massive plume of charcoalgrey smoke billowed out from the site.

It was the third time in just over a decade that explosions struck the popular marketplace in Tultepec, home to the country’s best-known fireworks shopping and located about 32 kilometres north of Mexico City in the adjacent State of Mexico.

Eruviel Avila, the state’s Governor, said the explosions injured at least 72 people while another 53 remained missing. ABC

This image made from a video recorded from a passing car shows an explosion ripping through the San Pablito fireworks’ market in Mexico, on Tuesday.