9 dead, 54 injured as wind causes stage collapse at Mexico election rally

CNN ^ | May 23, 2024 | Michael Rios, Mia Alberti and Fidel Gutierrez and Ivana Kottasová

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Nine people were killed and a presidential candidate was briefly taken to hospital after a stage collapsed under heavy winds at a campaign rally in Mexico on Wednesday.

Candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez said he was not injured in the incident, which happened during his campaign event in the northeastern city of San Pedro Garza García.

The governor of Mexico’s Nuevo Leon state said at least 54 people were injured and rescue operations were ongoing to save some of the people trapped under the collapsed stage.

Among the dead is one minor, Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda said in a post on X, adding that some of the injured are stable while others are undergoing surgery.

”What we experienced happened in just a few seconds: A gale came, a sudden wind, and unfortunately, it collapsed the stage, resulting in a fatal accident,” Álvarez Máynez told Reuters. “I first saw the musicians’ drums, from the group that was going to play, were going to get blown away. When the others noticed, they ran in different directions; some jumped to the sides (of the stage), and I jumped back.”

[Sacajaweau]

That's two...both weather related...neither should have happened...

you don't fly in cr** conditions...and you don't campaign in foul weather.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

This story about winds collapsing stages in Mexico and killing and injuring people seems to be a recurring story.

[frank ballenger]

From now on I expect AOC to give her verdict on God’s intervention or lack of it.

Including tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes and wind damage.

She could be like the Egyptian entrail reader killing the rabbit and splitting it open to give her verdicts in the movie Exodus: Gods and Kings. Played by Sigourney Weaver.

[Bernard]

Maybe all the good construction workers have left Mexico for other parts. I wonder where that might be.