Stage Collapses at Campaign Rally in Mexico, Killing at Least 6

A stage in a northern Mexican metropolis the place a presidential candidate was campaigning for an area candidate collapsed after a gust of wind blew by means of on Wednesday night time, leaving no less than six individuals dead and no less than 56 others injured, the town’s mayor mentioned.

The stage collapsed in San Pedro Garza García, a suburb of Monterrey within the state of Nuevo León, throughout an occasion attended by the progressive candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez and different members of the Citizens’ Movement party. The collapse was attributable to robust wind, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico mentioned on social media.

Miguel Treviño, the mayor, introduced the deaths and accidents in a video, including that each one of these injured had been taken to hospitals.

The stage, which had been erected on a baseball subject, was the positioning of a marketing campaign occasion for the Citizens’ Movement party’s candidate for the town’s mayoral election, Lorenia Canavati. The party mentioned that it had canceled all of its candidates’ scheduled occasions for Thursday after “hurricane-like winds” knocked down the stage.

Mr. Álvarez Máynez mentioned on social media that he was “nice” after the collapse and that he had been speaking with the state authorities to find out what had occurred. Ms. Canavati mentioned that her staff was coordinating with the authorities to assist the victims.

Mexico’s meteorological service mentioned on Wednesday night that wind gusts of as much as about 43 miles per hour have been anticipated within the nation’s northeast and that tornadoes have been potential in Nuevo León and close by states.

Samuel García, the governor of Nuevo León, mentioned in a video message that individuals ought to take cowl from the storm.

“We’re witnessing electrical storms. Very robust winds and heavy rain is anticipated for the following two hours,” he mentioned. “There’s already been a tragedy.”

People throughout Mexico will solid ballots for the presidency and greater than 20,000 native, state and congressional posts on June 2.

Citizens’ Movement, a center-left party based in 1999, is represented on this 12 months’s basic election by Mr. Álvarez Máynez, who has pitched himself as a third-party various to the front-runner, Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party’s coalition, and the opposition’s Xóchitl Gálvez.

Victoria Kim and Natalie Kitroeff contributed reporting.