He collapse of a temple during a campaign event leave at least four dead and 15 injured in Mexico. The accident occurred during an event for the presidential candidate for the opposition Citizen Movement party, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, who was unharmed, in the city of Monterrey, capital of the state of Nuevo León, in the north of the country.

“According to what Samuel García, governor of Nuevo León, who is at the scene of the incident, informs me, Four deaths and 15 injuries are reported“, reported the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, through his social networks.

The president has regretted the accident and has indicated that it was caused by “a strong wind during the “electoral” event. “I hug family members, friends of the victims and supporters of that organization. “We are attentive,” she indicated.

The stage, which had been set up for the closing of the campaign of Lorena Canavati, Citizen Movement candidate for mayor of San Pedro, Nuevo León, It practically collapsed at the end of the campaign held at the El Obispo baseball field, in the western area of ​​the municipality.

According to social media records, where the political event was broadcast, the accident occurred around 6:00 p.m., local time, when a strong wind moved the stage. In the images you can see the candidates Álvarez Máynez and Lorena Canavati running from the stagewhile the towers and the main screen was collapsing.

Agents from the emergency forces and state Civil Protection and the municipality of San Pedro went to the scene to care for the injured. “The members of my team who They were injured and are already being treated at the hospital. I am heading again to the scene of the events to accompany the victims,” ​​Álvarez Máynez himself said on the social network X.

Previously, the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García, who emerged from the same party, regretted the accident in a message on social networks and spoke about the weather conditions for Monterrey in the coming hours. “Good evening, this is a very important message. I ask you to please take shelter, intense rains are coming in the next few hours. There was an event 15 minutes ago, unfortunately an accident occurred that left several people injured during a campaign closing in San Pedro Garza García,” he indicated on the same social network.