Overview
- The explosion occurred on Wednesday, October 7, in San Pablo Zitlaltepec, Tlaxcala, killing 22-year-old Juan David Barranco Morales and leaving two others injured.
- Barranco Morales was a clarinetist with La Imparable Banda Dos Reinas who also worked at the pyrotechnics workshop, and the band confirmed his death with a public condolence message.
- Emergency teams treated victims at the scene and took the badly wounded musician to the Hospital General de Huamantla, where he died despite medical efforts.
- Local witnesses reported a loud detonation, a visible column of smoke, and scattered pyrotechnic remnants, and authorities secured the site for forensic and safety checks.
- State and municipal investigators are examining the cause of the blast and whether the workshop held required permits, a probe that could lead to changes in oversight of small pyrotechnics operations and affect the local community and the band.