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Mexico fireworks warehouse blast kills 14, including 11 children

by German Campos Agence France-Presse PUEBLA, Mexico  – An explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Mexico killed 14 people, including 11 children, authorities said Tuesday. The blast struck Monday night in a rural area of central Puebla state, Diodoro Carrasco, a senior official in the state government, told radio station Cinco Radio. Officials said the tragedy, which wounded 22 people, was the second in just a matter of just months. The state government said in […]

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Mexico landslides leave 40 dead as new storm forms

PUEBLA, Mexico (AFP) — Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Earl’s remnants have killed at least 40 people in Mexico, officials said late Sunday, as a new storm threatened the country’s Pacific coast. Hardest-hit was the central state of Puebla, where 29 people died, including at least 15 minors, as landslides buried several homes in the state’s northern mountains, the local government said. Another 11 died in similar circumstances in the eastern state of Veracruz, its […]

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