Dozens also were hurt after the blast ripped through the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec, on the northern outskirts of Mexico City, Mexican Federal Police said. A state prosecutor said 26 were killed.

Video shows an explosion that leveled most of the fireworks stalls at the market and sent a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky.

Fires previously engulfed the same market in 2005 and 2006.
   
 
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26 killed in explosion at Mexico's best-known fireworks market
Dozens also were hurt after the blast ripped through the open-air San Pablito Market in Tultepec, on the northern outskirts of Mexico City, Mexican Federal Police said. A state prosecutor said 26 were killed.

Video shows an explosion that leveled most of the fireworks stalls at the market and sent a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky.

Fires previously engulfed the same market in 2005 and 2006.
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