Stage Collapses at Mexico Campaign Event, Killing Nine
- Third-placed candidate says he’s fine after stage accident
- Competitors Sheinbaum and Galvez offer their condolences
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Gusts of wind brought down the stage at a campaign event for Mexican presidential candidate Jorge Alvarez Maynez’s Movimiento Ciudadano party, killing nine people.
The accident occurred in San Pedro Garza Garcia in the northeastern state of Nuevo Leon. State Governor Samuel Garcia said that in addition to the deaths, 70 had been taken to the hospital, according to a post on his X account.