In Pictures: Mexico fireworks market blast

A series of explosions at a fireworks market outside Mexico City has killed at least 27 people, and injured dozens more. The blast destroyed stalls and levelled the area into a smoking wasteland.

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Dec 21, 2016, 12:29 PM

People walk amid the ruins left by a huge blast that occurred in a fireworks market in Mexico City on Dec 20, 2016 killing at least nine people and injuring 70, according to police.
PHOTO: AFP

People hug after an explosion at the San Pablito fireworks market outside the Mexican capital in Tultepec, Mexico, on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

Rescue workers and local residents search amid the debris left by a huge blast that occurred in a fireworks market in Mexico City, on Dec 20, 2016 killing at least 26 people and injuring scores. PHOTO: AFP

Rescuers and survivors remain amid the smouldering ruins left by a blast in a fireworks market in Mexico City, on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Police officers walk amongst the wreckage of houses destroyed in an explosion at the San Pablito fireworks market outside the Mexican capital in Tultepec, Mexico, on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

A woman walks amidst the remains of houses destroyed in an explosion at the San Pablito fireworks market outside the Mexican capital in Tultepec, Mexico on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: REUTERS

Relatives grieve by the corpse of a victim of the blast in a fireworks market. The market was flattened by a huge blast that killed at least 26 and injured dozens, who lies on the ground in Mexico City, on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Soldiers and rescuers search amid the ruins left by a huge blast that occurred in a fireworks market in Mexico City on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

Rescue workers put out smoldering embers amid the debris left by a huge blast that occurred in a fireworks market in Mexico City, on Dec 20, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

People put out smoldering embers and search amid the debris left by a huge blast that occurred in a fireworks market in Mexico City, on Dec 20, 2016 killing at least 26 people and injuring scores. PHOTO: AFP

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