Firework factory explosion kills 5 in Mexico
An explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Mexico killed at least five people on Tuesday, an emergency services official said.
The civil protection agency said the factory in the town of Magdalena Apasco in Oaxaca state did not have a license to manufacture fireworks.
“Five people died there, all of them burned in the explosion,” the official told Reuters by telephone.
Last week, three people were killed in a similar accident at another unlicensed fireworks plant in Oaxaca state.
Firework accidents are common, as Mexico produces masses of cheap pyrotechnics for Christmas and year-end festivities, as well as independence day celebrations in September.
Many informal markets are not controlled by the authorities.
In September, several people were seriously injured when a chain of explosions ripped through a sprawling fireworks market full of people shopping for independence day parties near the capital.
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Fireworks explosion kills 7 and injures 4 in Mexico
Fireworks stored at a building that also illicitly sold gasoline exploded Saturday, killing seven people and injuring four, a local official said.
The building also housed video game machines, and five of the dead were children who frequented the video parlor on weekends, local authorities said.
The blast occurred in the tiny hamlet of Tlacotepec, high in the mountains of southern Guerrero state, about 75 miles north of Acapulco, Ayala Mata said.
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The explosion occurred just before dawn at a coal mine near the town of Sabinas, 85 miles southwest of Eagle Pass on the Mexico-U.S. border, said Daniel Romo of Coahuila state's emergency services.
Seven miners were being treated in hospital with bruises, broken bones and burns, he said, adding their injuries were not life-threatening.
Dozens more miners were still trapped underground, he said, although he didn't have an exact figure.
Huge firework blast rattles Mexican
A chain of explosions ripped through a sprawling market selling fireworks for Mexico's independence celebrations on Thursday, sending a huge column of smoke sky-high but causing only a handful of serious injuries.
Hundreds of blasts lasting for two hours reduced the market in the town of Tultepec, north-west of Mexico City, to a charred ruin. A large-scale tragedy was avoided only because stall owners ran for their lives as the explosions began.
Huddled with her children on the edge of a smoldering mass of twisted metal and smoldering wood the size of a football pitch and reeking
Truck, bus crash kills 38 in Mexico
Thirty-eight people were killed in northwest Mexico when a truck hauling ammonium chloride plowed into a passenger bus, El Universal reported Thursday.
The majority of those killed were burned by the harsh chemical that spilled at the tanker and bus slid down an embankment after impact.
Two dozen women and four children were among those killed.
Four other adults injured in the crash were taken to a local hospital for various injuries.
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Crash involving bus, gas tanker in western Mexico kills at least 37
A crash involving a gas tanker and a bus killed at least 37 people in the western state of Sinaloa, federal police said Wednesday.
The crash occurred Tuesday evening, near the city of Los Mochis, on a highway linking Mexico City and the border city of Nogales in northern Sinaloa, said a police officer, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record. Four people were injured.
The officer said that the tanker was carrying ammonium chloride, a toxic gas that sickened some of the victims.
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All declared dead in Mexican mine blast
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The Grupo Mexico company said that while no bodies have yet been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen inside the mine's shafts and tunnels and no hope of finding survivors from the explosion last Sunday.
"We are going to move on to the hard task of the physical recovery of our miners ... so the families can start their mourning," said Xavier Garcia, a senior executive at Grupo
Miners file murder charges against Grupo Mexico
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Mexico's miners' and metalworkers' union said late on Thursday it formally accused Grupo Mexico, Labor Minister Francisco Salazar and two mine inspectors of homicide.
The workers died after a methane explosion at the Pasta de Conchos mine in the northern state of Coahuila on Feb. 19.
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Tropical Storm Jose causes flooding, kills one in Mexico
Tropical Storm Jose weakened over the mountains of central Mexico on Tuesday, leaving flooding and at least one death in its wake.
Jose grew to tropical storm strength Monday afternoon in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico, and made landfall early Tuesday northwest of Veracruz with a sustained wind speed of 50 mph (80 kph), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
The storm dumped rain across region, triggering landslides and flooding that forced thousands to evacuate their houses. A 59-year-old man was killed in Jalapa when his home was buried by a
Bus-Tanker Crash in Mexico Kills 38
Tanker Truck Hauling Toxic Ammonium Choloride Slams Into Bus in Mexico, Killing at Least 38
A tanker truck hauling toxic ammonium chloride slammed into a passenger bus in northwest Mexico, killing 38 people as both vehicles plunged down an embankment, police said Wednesday.
The bus flipped onto its roof in Tuesday night's crash and the tanker spilled it load of 25 tons of ammonium chloride, officials said.
Most of the victims had skin damage caused by chemical burns and authorities were trying to determine if the ammonium chloride contributed to their deaths.
"The majority … had apparently
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The accident happened Thursday but the company released few details, including the approximate location of the accident in the Gulf.
"The aircraft, a single engine Bell helicopter, reportedly departed one production platform and was planning to land at a nearby platform when the accident occurred," a release from Air Logistics' parent company, Offshore Logistics Inc., said. "The families of the
