Overview
- State Health officials reported eight people were taken to the General Hospital of Tetecala for treatment, describing their injuries as non-serious and requiring sutures and dressings.
- The blast occurred on the night of November 2 during a Día de Muertos caravan in Mazatepec, Morelos, where a decorated float carrying fireworks caught fire and detonated.
- An earlier preliminary tally from state Civil Protection cited about ten injured, underscoring conflicting early counts as officials refined figures.
- Emergency responders from municipal and state Protección Civil, firefighters and paramedics quickly extinguished the flames, secured the area and coordinated care.
- Civil Protection linked the incident to the use of pyrotechnics and opened an investigation, and the Mazatepec municipal government had not issued a public statement.