Mexico|The accident happened as a result of strong wind.
of Mexico in the northern state of Nuevo Leon, at least nine people have been killed and 50 injured after a stage collapsed during an election event, officials say.
The accident happened as a result of strong winds on Wednesday local time. A state governor Samuel Garcia has described what happened as a tragedy on local television. The governor says on message service X that some of the injured have serious injuries.
About the accident in the footage taken, people flee the scene when the stage’s support structures collapse and the large screen falls onto the stage. At the time of the accident, there was, among others, a presidential candidate on the stage Jorge Alvarez Maynez.
After the accident, Maynez has told the message service X that he is fine. According to him, some of the members of his group have been hospitalized. Maynez’s party has announced that it will suspend all campaign events as a show of solidarity.
Presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez spoke to people at the scene of the accident on Wednesday.
From the center-left According to the latest opinion polls, MC party candidate Maynez is third in the presidential race. The candidate of the Morena party is ahead of him in opinion polls Claudia Sheinbaum and the candidate of the National Action Party PAN Xochitl Galvez.
Mexico’s presidential election will be held on June 2. At the same time, members of the House of Representatives, several state governors and local authorities are also elected.
The person who died in the accident was removed from the scene.
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