Fireworks factory explodes leaving woman with severe burns and destroying five homes

A woman was left with life-changing burns and five homes were destroyed when an explosion obliterated an illegal fireworks factory.



Footage uploaded online shows smoke billowing from the building as a fire rages, just seconds before the horrifying explosion .



The incident happened at a factory in the Los Pinos neighbourhood of San Cristobal de las Casas in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.



Police confirmed a woman was left with third-degree burns to her body after the explosion.