Fireworks Village in Mexico Parties Again After Tragedy Agence France-Presse
go to original March 9, 2017

A pyrotechnic bull roared through the town of Tultepec on Wednesday, spraying a cascade of sparks into crowds of San Juan de Dios festival revellers. (Ruptly TV)

A Mexican village specializing in making fireworks that was devastated by a deadly pyrotechnic explosion moved to put the tragedy behind it with a spectacular fiery fiesta.

Forty-two people died and 70 were injured when tons of fireworks ignited at a market in the village Tultepec, north of Mexico City a few days before Christmas last year (see video below).

But on Wednesday night the village returned to its flamboyant but risky ways, marking the Catholic festival of San Juan de Dios, with thousands of revelers running among exploding fireworks and hundreds of giant burning paper bulls.

Rockets screamed and acrid white smoke filled the air as revelers yelled "Fire, fire!" Firefighters, ambulances and security forces were out in force.

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