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Mexico village mourns victims of deadly fireworks blast

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Coffins containing the remains of seven children killed in a fireworks explosion are carried into the grounds of the local school as family and community join to pay their final respects, in San Isidro, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

A cousin cries before the coffin containing the remains of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, as the family says goodbye inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

Family members stand around the coffin of 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz, who died in a fireworks explosion, as they say their last respects inside their two-room cinderblock home in San Isidro, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. An errant firecracker landed on a cache of fireworks and touched off a powerful explosion Tuesday, at a home in the Mexican state of Puebla, killing 11 children and three adults. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) (The Associated Press)

A remote mountain hamlet in central Mexico is mourning the victims of a fireworks explosion that killed 14 people, including 11 children.

Residents of San Isidro wept beneath a tent where child-size coffins lay covered in flowers and crosses Wednesday. Many of the village's 400 or so residents turned out for the wake.

Monday's blast was caused by an errant firecracker that landed on a cache of fireworks being stored in a home for a religious celebration.

Adriano Serrano Rosas is the owner of the house that was leveled. He lost three children and two grandchildren.

Serrano says when the trembling stopped he saw his 14-year-old son Ambrosio bleeding from the head. In his words: "I said 'my son, you went before I did,' and I sat here hugging him."