Death toll from Mexican nursery fire rises to 43
13:42, 9 June 2009
MEXICO CITY. June 9. KAZINFORM The death toll from a fire that swept through a nursery in northwest Mexico has risen to 43 after two more children died of their injuries, Mexican prosecutors said; Kazinform refers to RIA Novosti.
There were over 140 children aged between two months and five years at the daycare center in the city of Hermosillo in Sonora state on Friday when a blaze broke out in an adjacent tire depot. The fire appears to have been caused by a short circuit.
"Twenty-two girls and 21 boys aged between four months and three years died of burns and carbon monoxide and smoke inhalation," prosecutors said in a statement, adding that all the bodies have been identified and handed over to the families; Kazinform cites RIA Novosti.
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