Daycare blaze leaves 38 dead

SOBBING relatives waited outside a mortuary to claim the bodies from a daycare fire that killed 38 children in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building’s only working exit.

A father crashed his pickup truck through the wall in an effort to rescue his child.

The family of two-year-old Maria Magdalena Millan held a funeral for her, dropping white roses onto her tiny coffin and attaching a Dora the Explorer balloon to the cross marking her grave. One woman held a framed picture of her.

“I love you and I don’t want to leave you here!” her mother screamed.

President Felipe Calderon arrived in Hermosillo late yesterday to visit victims in two hospitals. He promised families a full investigation to determine the cause.