Following a church collapse ten people killed in Mexico

On Oct 3, 2023

Members of a rescue team and people work at a site where a church roof collapsed during Sunday mass in Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico in this handout picture distributed to Reuters on October 1, 2023. Secretaria de Seguridad Publica Tamaulipas/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – At least 10 people, including three children, were killed when the roof of a church in northern Mexico, collapsed as 100 people were attending a baptism.

The BBC reports that Forty people were hospitalised including a four-month-old baby, three five-year-olds and two nine-year-olds.

There was no immediate information on their condition. Dozens were trapped underneath the rubble of the Santa Cruz church in Ciudad Madero.

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