Police said about 100 people were inside the Santa Cruz church when the roof collapsed in the Mexican city of Ciudad Madero.
The roof of a church collapsed in northern Mexico during a Mass on Sunday, killing an undetermined number of people among approximately 30 parishioners believed trapped in the rubble, authorities said.
Civil officials gave no information on any casualties. But the Mexican Council of Bishops issued a statement early in the evening saying that"we join in prayer at the tragic loss of life and those injured," though it did not say how many had died. Rescue workers search for survivors amid debris after the roof of a church collapsed during a Sunday Mass in Ciudad Madero, Mexico, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023.He also called on anyone who had wood to donate to bring it to the church, apparently to shore up the roof while rescue teams crawled inside.
Walls did not appear to have been blown outward, nor was there any indication of an explosion, or anything other than simple structural failure. Video distributed by the state civil defense office showed the outer edges of the roof proppws up up by short wooden blocks.
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