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Nine dead and 50 injured at election campaign event in Mexico
Security guards stand around the stage, which has collapsed. photo
© Alberto Lopez/AP/dpa
A presidential candidate is standing on a stage at a baseball field in Mexico when gusts of wind suddenly cause it to collapse. Panic breaks out in the audience.
When a stage collapsed due to strong winds during an election campaign event in At least nine people have died in Mexico.
A child was also among the dead, said the governor of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Samuel García, on the X platform. At least 50 people were injured.
The accident occurred on a baseball field in the municipality of San Pedro Garza García. “I regret the accident in San Pedro Garza García,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrote on X.
Presidential candidate Jorge Álvarez Maynez from the small center-left party Movimiento Ciudadano was on the stage with a mayoral candidate and other people when the accident occurred. He was unharmed. Videos circulated on social media showing the structure collapsing on the audience and panic breaking out. Presidential, parliamentary and regional elections will be held in Mexico on June 2.