At least 9 people dead and 50 injured is the preliminary balance in the stage collapse at the closing of the campaign of Lorenia Canavati von Borstel, candidate for mayor of San Pedro Garza, Nuevo León, where Jorge Álvarez Máynez, standard bearer of Movimiento Ciudadano, was also present (MC) to the presidency of Mexico.
The accident recorded in the Neolonian municipality happened around 9:00 p.m. (central time), when Álvarez Máynez, Lorenia Canavati and other politicians were saying goodbye to the thousands of people present at the rally, at which time a strong gust of wind collapsed the stage with everything including lights, tents and metal structure.
Erik Teódulo Cavazos Cavazos, director of Civil Protection (PC) of the state, reported that It was an “atypical wind in the mountain area” the one that left an unknown number of people under the stage.
“It is presumed that there was also a possible lightning strike,” he said in an interview with national media.
Immediately after the news, the governor of NL, Samuel García Sepúlveda, exhorted the neolonese through a video on their social networks not to leave home in the following hours due to the forecast of a thunderstorm with strong wind.
“To all the people of the Metropolitan Area, I ask you to please take shelter, we are witnessing electrical storms, very strong winds and rains are coming in the next two hours”; she said.
The reaction of the State came from the different corporations, from PC, Police of the State and Municipal orders, National Guard (GN) and Mexican Army, which implemented the DN III-E Plan as revealed by the Secretary of the Interior Luisa Alcalde .
The governor present
Although conflicting versions circulate about the numbers of dead and injured, Samuel García gave the official version in a brief interview with the media from the site of the collapse in San Pedro Garza.
“We are very sad, I just hung up with the president (AMLO) to inform him that there was a tragedy. Preliminarily we have 5 people dead and approximately 50 with different types of injuries, some serious and others medium,” he said before the cameras. .
The leader of the state executive added that they hope that the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Nuevo León will clarify what happened.
Minutes later, He used his social networks to update the number of deceased people 9including a minor.
“I just visited Clinic 7 and I regret to report that so far the number of people killed by the accident amounts to 8 adults and 1 minor. The injured who are in this clinic are already stable,” he wrote.
Maynez reaction
One of the first to publish about it on his networks was Álvarez Máynez himself, who confirmed that he is in good health despite his transfer to a hospital.
“After the accident in San Pedro Garza, where a gust of wind collapsed the stage where we were, I went to the San José hospital. I am fine and in communication with state authorities,” he posted on his X account.
He added that the members of his team who were injured were treated at a medical center.
In response to the accident, the presidential candidate suspended his visit to Tlaxcala and Hidalgo, as well as the rest of his campaign activities.
“I will be in Nuevo León to monitor the situation and the victims,” he published.
Other reactions
The MC candidate for mayor of San Pedro Garza, Lorenia Canavati, remained somewhat more hermetic regarding the facts. She posted just one message on her Facebook account where she lamented the tragedy.
“There are no words to describe the pain and sadness caused by the terrible accident that occurred today at our campaign event caused by a strong gust of wind. At this moment the only thing I can think about is those affected and their families. My team and I are already coordinating with the authorities so that they are given all the attention and support.
Other political personalities who were present on social networks were the candidate of the Morena – PT – PVEM coalition, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, who in the first instance sent good wishes to the politicians and public involved.
Minutes later he canceled a rally scheduled at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 23 in Monterrey, Nuevo León.
“In solidarity with what happened tonight at the Citizen Movement event in San Pedro, Nuevo León. We have decided to cancel the rally scheduled for tomorrow at 6pm in Monterrey. Our solidarity with the family and friends of the victims, and the militants and MC sympathizers,” he wrote on his ‘X’.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) also briefly touched on the topic on his networks with the following message, where he gave preliminary figures that were updated by other officials later.
“I regret the accident in San Pedro Garza García, caused by a strong wind during the event attended by Jorge Álvarez Máynez, presidential candidate for Movimiento Ciudadano and other militants, leaders and candidates of that party. According to what Samuel García, governor, informs me of Nuevo León, which is at the scene of the events, four deaths and 15 injuries are reported. I hug family members, friends of the victims and supporters of that organization.
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