Story By: Alex Cope, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News
Video Credit: CEN/@SS_Edomex
This is the moment a firework factory explodes into a huge fireball in an accident which left two people dead.
The shocking accident took place at a firework and pyrotechnics factory in the San Pedro de la Laguna area of the municipality of Zumpango in the central Mexican state of Mexico yesterday (Thursday).
In the video, a government security camera can be seen turning to focus on the explosion which bursts into flames.
What appear to be fireworks are sent flying from the fireball before a huge plume of smoke rises from the scene.
Footage taken after the incident shows the smoke column rising high into the sky and local media report it could be seen from several kilometres away.
Video Credit: CEN/@Neoblazealex
Local media report two people, an unnamed man and woman, were killed in an accident whilst another was injured and taken to the Regional Hospital of High Speciality in Zumpango. There are no updates on their condition.
Governor Alfredo del Mazo said: “Officers from the Civil Protection and the Secretary of Safety are working in Zumpango due the explosion of a firework factory… To keep the lives of the local residents safe I instructed 600 people to be evacuated from the area.”
It is unclear what caused the explosion and an investigation is ongoing.
The Coordinator of the Civil Protection of the State of Mexico Felipe Puente said officers from the Civil Protection, the Secretary of National Defence, the local Secretary of Safety and firefighters were working at the scene.
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