At least seven people were killed in northeast Mexico on Sunday after the roof of a church came crashing down during a Mass, local officials said.
“Seven people are confirmed dead, and 10 injured people have been rescued” in the town of Ciudad Madero, a spokesperson for the Tamaulipas state government said in a statement.
The Tamaulipas state police said that about 100 people were in the church at the time of the collapse and that about 30 were still trapped in the rubble.
“From underneath the rubble, thanks to Divine Providence and the work of the rescue teams, people have been pulled out alive!” Alvarez’s diocese wrote in a statement posted on it social media accounts. “Let’s keep praying!”
Bishop José Armando Alvarez of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tampico said the roof caved in while parishioners were receiving communion at the Santa Cruz church.
