{"id":56830,"date":"2024-05-23T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/stage-collapses-at-campaign-rally-in-northern-mexico-killing-at-least-5\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T05:20:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T05:20:08","slug":"stage-collapses-at-campaign-rally-in-northern-mexico-killing-at-least-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/23\/stage-collapses-at-campaign-rally-in-northern-mexico-killing-at-least-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage Collapses at Campaign Rally in Northern Mexico, Killing at Least 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/22\/multimedia\/22MEXICO-zchf\/22MEXICO-zchf-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Stage Collapses at Campaign Rally in Northern Mexico, Killing at Least 5\" title=\"Stage Collapses at Campaign Rally in Northern Mexico, Killing at Least 5\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A stage in northern Mexico where a presidential candidate was campaigning collapsed after a gust of wind blew through the area on Wednesday night, leaving at least five people dead and at least 50 others injured, a state governor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The stage collapsed in a suburb of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Le\u00f3n, during an event attended by the progressive candidate Jorge \u00c1lvarez M\u00e1ynez and other members of the Citizens\u2019 Movement party. The collapse was caused by strong wind, President Andr\u00e9s Manuel L\u00f3pez Obrador of Mexico said on <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/lopezobrador_\/status\/1793487918876749832?s=46&amp;t=8H3FDbkvfJkXNtBv_SrGPg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Samuel Garc\u00eda, the governor of Nuevo Le\u00f3n, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sopitas\/status\/1793495040058368043?s=46&amp;t=UYSoYnMOYiuoiXPIHW6nxg\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">announced the deaths and injuries<\/a> in a news conference. He said that he was waiting for the national authorities to provide more information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The stage, which had been erected on a baseball field in the city of San Pedro Garza Garc\u00eda, was the site of a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/loreniacanavati\/status\/1793413682753622288\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">campaign event<\/a> for the Citizens\u2019 Movement party\u2019s candidate for the city\u2019s mayoral election, Lorenia Canavati.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. \u00c1lvarez M\u00e1ynez <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlvarezMaynez\/status\/1793474025118929186\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said on social media<\/a> that he was \u201cfine\u201d after the collapse and that he had been communicating with the state authorities to determine what had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Garc\u00eda said in a video message that people should take cover from the storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re witnessing electric storms. Very strong winds and heavy rain is expected for the next two hours,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s already been a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Victoria Kim<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/23\/world\/americas\/mexico-candidate-stage-collapse.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stage in northern Mexico where a presidential candidate was campaigning collapsed after a gust of wind blew through the area on Wednesday night, leaving at least five people dead and at least 50 others injured, a state governor said. The stage collapsed in a suburb of Monterrey, in the state of Nuevo Le\u00f3n, during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/22\/multimedia\/22MEXICO-zchf\/22MEXICO-zchf-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2243,6151,4373,1296,6235,2945,526],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56832,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56830\/revisions\/56832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}