TULTEPEC, Mexico—Claudia Urbán is one of the lucky ones.
On the afternoon of Dec. 20, 2016, she was working her stall at the San Pablito fireworks market in the town of Tultepec, about an hour north of Mexico City, when tragedy struck.
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Juventino Luna, town hall representative of Tultepec, with bomba fireworks at a regulated firework shop in Tultepec, Mexico, on Oct. 1, 2018. Tim MacFarlan/Special to The Epoch Times
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