Mexico City — Mexico worked on Wednesday to identify charred bodies left by an explosion that killed at least 33 people at its biggest fireworks market, as authorities investigated what caused the multi-coloured salvo of destruction. Rescue workers were still searching for bodies — or survivors — in the smoldering wreckage of the San Pablito market in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec. Dazed family members wandered outside the tightly guarded blast site, seeking information on their relatives. Concepcion Hernandez said she had had no news from her mother, 65, and brother, 29, since the Tuesday afternoon explosion. "They came to buy fireworks for their store. It was their first time here," she said through tears. "We don’t know anything." Another family was looking for two missing children whose mother and grandmother were killed in the explosion. At the time of the blast, the market was packed with customers buying pyrotechnics for traditional year-end festivities. Christmas and Ne...
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