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Death toll in Mexican day care fire rises to 43
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 08 - 06 - 2009


The number of children who died in the tragic
fire at a public day care centre in north-western Mexico continued to
rise and reached 43, the authorities said Monday, according to dpa.
The government of the Mexican state of Sonora said seven minors
were released from hospital in the past few hours and 20 people - 16
children and four adults - remain in local hospitals.
There were however more serious cases, noted Sonora Health
Minister Raymundo Lopez Vucovich. Ten children were taken to
hospitals in the Mexican city of Guadalajara and three others were
transferred to the US city of Sacramento for treatment.
The fire at the ABC day care centre in the city of Hermosillo,
about 1,900 kilometres northwest of Mexico City, broke out
around 3 pm (2200 GMT) Friday.
About 8,000 people attended Sunday a funeral mass in the memory of
the dead children. The religious service was officiated by 20
priests.
The tragedy was believed to have been triggered by an electrical
cross-circuit at either a neighbouring tyre dealership or a warehouse
and leapt quickly to the day care centre with its 140 children
between the ages of 3 months and 4 years.
Authorities were investigating what sparked the fire, which spread
quickly through the day care centre's foam insulation. The insulation
started to melt and fell on the children like "rain of fire," in the
words of one fireman.
The dead children lost their lives through either suffocation or
severe burns.
According to media reports based on Finance Ministry documents,
the facility - which had just passed an inspection in late May - was
owned by people with political connections.


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