Mexico City’s AXE Ceremonia Suspended After Crane Collapse Kills Two

Mexico Metropolis’s AXE Ceremonia music festival canceled its Sunday lineup — which included scheduled performances by Tyler, the Creator, the Marias, and Large Assault — after a crane collapse on the fest Saturday killed two folks.

“With deep disappointment, we affirm the passing of the 2 individuals who have been injured throughout immediately’s incident,” AXE Ceremonia mentioned in a press release Saturday. “We’re deeply heartbroken by this loss. We’re reaching out to their households to help them throughout this extremely troublesome time and to offer them with all our care and solidarity. The protection of our group has at all times been our precedence, and we proceed, as from the very starting, to take care of shut collaboration and full transparency with the authorities.”

In keeping with authorities, a wind gust toppled a crane that was holding an ornamental metallic object, Billboard reports. The crane fell on “two individuals who obtained pre-hospital care on the scene, and have been later urgently transported to the hospital, the place they sadly handed away” The 2 folks have been later recognized as photgraphers Miguel Angel Rojas and Berenice Giles.

Whereas the competition continued on Saturday following the accident — together with headlining units by Charli XCX and Ok-pop band Tomorrow X Collectively — AXE Ceremonia organizers and the native mayor’s workplace introduced the cancelation of Sunday’s festivities.

“The groups from the Miguel Hidalgo Authorities and Authorized Affairs, together with the borough’s Civil Safety division and the Administrative Verification Institute of Mexico Metropolis, accomplished the inspection and positioned suspension seals on the entrances to AXE Ceremonia in Bicentennial Park,” the mayor’s office said. “Subsequently, the occasion this Sunday, April 6, is suspended.”