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By: Real America News Updated 12 Nov 2022, 16: 21 pm EST
A strong explosion surprised the inhabitants of Tultepec, in the State of Mexico, who reported the incident through social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
The afternoon this Saturday, there was a strong explosion in a pyrotechnics workshop in Tultepec, a Mexican municipality in which one of its main economic activities is the manufacture of fireworks.
The explosion occurred approximately the 13: 00 hours of this 12 November, which generated a large column of smoke several meters high, as well as a rumble that was heard several kilometers around.
Through social networks, they inhabit tes from the area shared photos and videos of the column of smoke . Some detailed that there were between three and five constant explosions that were heard shortly after in the place.
Although there are no figures yet officers, it is reported that there are at least two people injured, who He was supposedly working at the site when the explosion occurred.
According to the first reports, among the injured there are a minor of 13 years of age and a male approximately 36 years old with severe burns.
Authorities came to the scene, emergency services and Civil Protection to attend to the people who were at the time of the explosion and control the fire generated by it.
Tultepec, the capital of to-declared of the fireworks
Explosions of this type are recurrently registered in that municipality and that is because the production of artisanal fireworks in Mexico is mainly carried out in the State of Mexico and Tultepec is the self-declared capital of the fireworks.
This area has 734 years of tradition of making fireworks, with approximately sixty-five percent of the population being directly or indirectly involved in the production of fireworks.
In Tultepec all fireworks are handmade, including decoration and packaging, mostly in small factories or workshops that produce all kinds of pyrotechnics.
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