At least nine people died and around 50 were injured on Wednesday after a stage collapsed during a campaign event in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, of the opposition presidential candidate Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, who was unharmed.
Samuel García, governor of the state of Nuevo León, updated that the official figure for now is nine deceased, including a minor.
The impressive images show how at the end of the event, Álvarez Máynez and other politicians bid farewell amidst applause from the audience, who chanted the candidate's name, when suddenly a strong gust of wind caused the stage to move and the main screen and lighting towers to collapse.
Mexican local media outlets report that the stage had been set up for the closing campaign event of Lorena Canavati, the candidate of the Citizen Movement party for the mayoralty of San Pedro, in the state of Nuevo León.
In the images, Álvarez Máynez and Canavati can be seen trying to escape from the stage just before the towers and the main screen collapsed.
The event took place at El Obispo baseball field, and according to social media records that broadcasted the political event, the accident occurred around 6:00 p.m. (local time).
After the terrible event, agents from the emergency services and the State and San Pedro municipality Civil Protection immediately moved to the scene to assist the injured.
The members of my team who were injured are already being taken care of at the hospital. I am heading back to the scene to accompany the victims," Álvarez Máynez wrote on Twitter.
Previously, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, from MC, lamented the accident in a message on social media and talked about the weather conditions for Monterrey in the coming hours.
The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, lamented the tragedy in a brief message on social media.
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