The dying toll from a roof collapse at a church in northeastern Mexico rose to 11 on Monday, with dozens extra injured, as a shocked group mourned victims of the catastrophe.

The tragedy struck the coastal city of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, on Sunday when about 70 individuals had been attending a baptism on the Santa Cruz Catholic Church, in keeping with officers.

“Unfortunately I’ve just received the sad news that another person has died. We have 11 deaths,” city mayor Adrian Oseguera informed reporters on the scene on Monday.

Several youngsters had been amongst these killed, whereas about 60 individuals had been injured, of whom 13 remained in hospital, authorities stated.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador expressed his condolences to the kinfolk.

The catastrophe had generated “a lot of solidarity from the people,” he stated at his common morning information convention.

Church officers stated a collective baptism was being celebrated when the ceiling collapsed in Ciudad Madero, a metropolis of simply over 200,000 individuals on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

“We are experiencing a very difficult moment,” the bishop of the native diocese, Jose Armando Alvarez, stated in a video posted to social media.

With all the lacking accounted for, staff used heavy equipment to clear away rubble, as native residents expressed sorrow.

“I’m shocked. What happens to one of us, happens to all of us, so we feel a lot of pain for the families who are going through this,” stated Beatriz Morales, a housewife.

– Rescue effort –

After the roof collapsed, ambulances, police and army personnel rushed to the positioning, along with quite a few individuals seeking relations who had been contained in the church.

Local residents put out calls on social media asking for instruments to assist the rescue effort, reminiscent of hydraulic lifts and hammers.

Local media confirmed footage of dozens of individuals making an attempt to carry up a part of the collapsed construction with poles whereas others made their manner via the wreckage seeking survivors.

In a scene harking back to earthquake restoration efforts, rescuers may very well be seen elevating their fists within the air as a name for silence so they could hear any requires assist coming from individuals caught below the wreckage.

A video reportedly from a close-by safety digicam seems to point out the second of collapse, because the church constructing crumbles suddenly right into a cloud of mud.

The constructing was constructed about 4 many years in the past and reworked in 2010.

The Archdiocese of Mexico posted a message on social media providing condolences.

“We join in prayer with our sister diocese Tampico to intercede for our killed and injured brothers,” it stated.

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