A stage in a northern Mexican metropolis the place a presidential candidate was campaigning for an area candidate collapsed after a gust of wind blew by on Wednesday night time, leaving no less than six individuals useless and no less than 56 others injured, town’s mayor stated.
The stage collapsed in San Pedro Garza García, a suburb of Monterrey within the state of Nuevo León, throughout an occasion attended by the progressive candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez and different members of the Residents’ Motion social gathering. The collapse was attributable to robust wind, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico stated on social media.
Miguel Treviño, the mayor, introduced the deaths and accidents in a video, including that each one of these injured had been taken to hospitals.
The stage, which had been erected on a baseball discipline, was the positioning of a marketing campaign occasion for the Residents’ Motion social gathering’s candidate for town’s mayoral election, Lorenia Canavati. The social gathering stated that it had canceled all of its candidates’ scheduled occasions for Thursday after “hurricane-like winds” knocked down the stage.
Mr. Álvarez Máynez stated on social media that he was “advantageous” after the collapse and that he had been speaking with the state authorities to find out what had occurred. Ms. Canavati stated that her staff was coordinating with the authorities to assist the victims.
Mexico’s meteorological service stated on Wednesday night that wind gusts of as much as about 43 miles per hour had been anticipated within the nation’s northeast and that tornadoes had been doable in Nuevo León and close by states.
Samuel García, the governor of Nuevo León, stated in a video message that folks ought to take cowl from the storm.
“We’re witnessing electrical storms. Very robust winds and heavy rain is anticipated for the subsequent two hours,” he stated. “There’s already been a tragedy.”
Folks throughout Mexico will solid ballots for the presidency and greater than 20,000 native, state and congressional posts on June 2.
Residents’ Motion, a center-left social gathering based in 1999, is represented on this 12 months’s normal election by Mr. Álvarez Máynez, who has pitched himself as a third-party various to the front-runner, Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena social gathering’s coalition, and the opposition’s Xóchitl Gálvez.
Victoria Kim and Natalie Kitroeff contributed reporting.
