Overview
- Authorities confirmed three fatalities and one person wounded after an explosion at a pyrotechnics workshop in San Mateo Sosola, Oaxaca.
- State health services said the injured person was transferred to the Hospital General de Asunción Nochixtlán, with officials reporting second- and third-degree burns and a delicate condition.
- Firefighters and municipal civil protection crews extinguished the blaze with support from a water tanker, according to the state fire department.
- Civil protection coordinator Manuel Maza reported the blast stemmed from imprudent use of fire by the operator, while a formal investigative report has not yet been released.
- Officials identified the deceased as Emilio Valentín Mayoral Rivera, María Lady Rivera Hernández, and Angélica Rivera Chávez, and noted the incident occurred in a Mixtec community where artisanal pyrotechnics are part of the local economy.