The roof of a church collapsed during Sunday mass in a northern Mexican city, killing at least 10 people and injuring 60, authorities said Monday, as local authorities began to end search and rescue operations.
Five women, two men and three children were among those killed at a church in the Gulf Coast city of Ciudad Madero in Tamaulipas state, Gov. Américo Villarreal said.
Images posted on social media showed the moment the church’s roof collapsed, with a cloud of gray smoke billowing into the air, followed by the collapse of the yellow brick exterior walls.
All people at the mass are believed to have already been accounted for, Governor Villarreal said, as the military and emergency services used rescue dogs and heavy machinery to search the ruins.
The governor added that 23 people remain hospitalized, including two in serious condition.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed his condolences to the families of the victims during his morning press conference.
Bishop José Armando Alvarez of the Catholic diocese of nearby Tampico said the church’s roof collapsed while worshipers were receiving communion and asked for prayers for the survivors.
“We still don’t know what caused the collapse,” diocese spokesman Néstor Javier López told the Reforma newspaper. “We hope the authorities do their job and let us know what happened.”
Source: Terra
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