Police: 9 Dead, 70 Hurt in Blast at Mexican Fireworks Market

TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — An explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, killing at least nine people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky.
Mexican Federal Police announced via its official Twitter account what it called the preliminary toll from the afternoon blast at the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec, in the State of Mexico.
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