A gust of wind throughout an election rally brought on the construction to fall on a crowd of spectators
9 folks have been killed and not less than 50 injured after a part of a stage collapsed at a political rally in Mexico on Wednesday, in accordance with authorities.
The accident occurred throughout a marketing campaign occasion for Jorge Alvarez Maynez, the presidential candidate for the center-left Residents’ Motion social gathering, within the metropolis of San Pedro Garza Garcia within the northern state of Nuevo Leon.
Video footage posted on social media reveals the stage all of the sudden falling ahead into the group. Robust wind has been blamed for breaking the big, concert-style construction.
En este video se ve cómo se derrumba toda la estructura sobre la multitud, se reportan 5 muertos y más de 50 lesionados en San Pedro Garza García.Es una noche triste para México. 💔pic.twitter.com/3DB1a8hnzm
— Roberto Haz (@tudimebeto) Might 23, 2024
One little one was among the many lifeless, native governor Samuel Garcia mentioned on social media. Three of the injured required surgical procedure, he added.
“I’ve by no means skilled one thing so sudden,” Reuters quoted Alvarez Maynez as saying, as he described how rapidly the wind had picked up earlier than the stage collapsed. A number of members of his group had been injured, he added.
Alvarez Maynez, who’s polling in third place in Mexico’s presidential election forward of the vote on June 2, escaped unhurt.
Governor Garcia urged residents to remain indoors as sturdy winds and storms proceed within the space.
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