This remote mountain hamlet in central Mexico gave an emotional farewell Wednesday to the victims of a fireworks explosion that killed 14 people, including 12 youth between the ages of 4 and 18.

Residents of San Isidro wept beneath a tent where child-size coffins lay covered in flowers and crosses. In the kitchen of one cinderblock home, people paid their respects to a 6-year-old boy whose body was shrouded in white fabric.

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

Family members say goodbye to 6-year-old Victor Serrano Ruiz inside the family's cinderblock home in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Adriano Serrano Rosas, the owner of the house that was leveled, said he lost three children and two grandchildren, all of them between 4 and 18 years old.

Serrano, whose head and hand were bandaged from injuries he suffered, said that when the roar of the explosion quieted and the debris stopped falling, he turned and saw his 14-year-old son, Ambrosio, on the ground bleeding from the head.

“I said, ‘My son, you went before I did,’ and I sat here holding him,” Serrano said.

Many of the village’s 400 or so residents turned out for the wake. Some cleaned chickens to be cooked on an outdoor barbecue.

Fireworks are a mainstay of holiday celebrations in Mexico, and accidental blasts are relatively common occurrences often with fatal consequences.

On Dec. 20, several dozen people were killed when a particularly large chain-reaction explosion ripped through a fireworks market in Tultepec, on the northern outskirts of Mexico City, as it bustled with shoppers stocking up for the year-end holidays.

There have been at least two other deadly pyrotechnic blasts in the country since then, including one at a home in Tultepec and another at a fireworks workshop in the central state of Tlaxcala, which borders Puebla.

Mourners carry the coffins of young people killed in a fireworks explosion to the village church, in San Isidro, Puebla State, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mourners carry the coffins of 11 young people between the ages of 4 and 18, killed in a fireworks explosion, as they walk past debris from a wooden home destroyed in the accident, in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mourners carry the coffins of 5 young people of the Serrano family through the site of the accident during the funeral procession in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Traditional dancers accompany the coffins of 12 young people killed in a fireworks explosion, to a special burial plot on a hilltop overlooking the village of San Isidro, Puebla State, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mourners gather around open graves as they prepare to bury 11 young people between the ages of 4 and 18 killed in a fireworks explosion, in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mariachis play violins as a child-size coffin is carried during the funeral procession in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Wednesday May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

A woman weeps as she holds a wooden cross at the wake for 14 people killed during a fireworks explosion last Monday in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Family and friends hold a wake for 11 children killed in a fireworks explosion in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A straw hat and a cross made with two pieces of wood lie on the ground next to the site of a fireworks explosion that leveled a house and killed 14 people, including 11 children, in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

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. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A cross sits on top of the coffin with the remains of 6-year-op Victor Serrano Ruiz during a wake for 14 people, including 11 children, killed during a fireworks explosion last Monday in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

Traditional dancers perform at a wake for 12 of the 14 killed in a fireworks explosion in the village of San Isidro, Puebla State, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

People accompany the coffin of one of the 12 people killed in a fireworks explosion, to a special burial plot atop a hill overlooking the village of San Isidro, Puebla State, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A woman who lost three children and five grandchildren in a fireworks explosion is comforted by a well-wisher, next to the coffin of one of her sons during a wake for 12 of the 14 people killed in the accident, in the village of San Isidro, Puebla State, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A makeshift cross rests beside an open grave as mourners prepare to bury 11 children killed in a fireworks explosion, in the village of San Isidro, Puebla state, Mexico, Wednesday, May 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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