Streets of Mexico lit up for spectacular Pyrotechnics fair

10 March 2017 12:48 PM IST

Installations were set alight on the streets.

Two months after an explosion tore through the Tultepec fireworks market, killing 42, the town honored its patron saint San Juan de Dios (Photo: AP)
The festival was marked by tragic deaths of people due to an explosion recently (Photo: AP)
They honored its patron saint San Juan de Dios in its usual exuberant style, by exploding hundreds of colorful bulls elaborately rigged with fireworks in a field and the packed town square (Photo: AP)
Fireworks explode off of a wheeled paper bull rigged with pyrotechnics during the annual pyrotechnics fair in Tultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City (Photo: AP)
A young man prepares strips of fireworks rigged to the top of a wheeled paper bull during the annual pyrotechnics fair (Photo: AP)
Young men celebrate alongside a wheeled paper bull rigged with pyrotechnics during the annual pyrotechnics fair (Photo: AP)
Young people run amidst fireworks exploding off of a wheeled paper bull rigged with pyrotechnics, during the annual pyrotechnics fair in Tultepec (Photo: AP)

Two months after an explosion tore through the Tultepec fireworks market, killing 42, the town honored its patron saint San Juan de Dios (Photo: AP)

Installations were set alight on the streets.