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Mexico Day Care Fire Kills 35 Children

    Created: 6/6/2009 4:19:39 PM    Updated: 6/6/2009 4:20:44 PM
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The investigation continues into a deadly fire at a day care center in northern Mexico.

At least 35 children were killed in yesterday's blaze in Hermosillo.

The governor of Sonora state says the fire started at an adjoining tire and car warehouse leased by the state and spread to the roof of the day care.

Officials say at least 41 children and six adults have been hospitalized, some with third-degree burns.

The governor says one child has been flown to the Shriners Hospital for Children in Sacramento, Calif. Others have been sent to a hospital in Guadalajara that has a special burns unit.

The director of Mexico's Social Security Institute, which outsourced services to the privately run day care, says a May 26 inspection found that the building housing the day care complied with safety standards. There was only one exit door.

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