A stage collapsed at a Mexican election campaign rally, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens as high winds tore apart the large, concert-style structure, scattering politicians and attendees.
Some 70 people were hospitalized after the rally for the Citizens’ Movement party in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, Samuel Garcia, the state’s governor, said.
He said he would meet with security and civil protection officials at the government palace.
The victims were eight adults and one child, Garcia said, adding he was headed to a hospital where three people were in surgery.
Jorge Alvarez Maynez, the presidential candidate for the centrist Citizens’ Movement party, said a gust of wind caused the stage to collapse at the event in the city of San Pedro Garza Garcia, a wealthy enclave near the industrial hub of Monterrey.
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