The collapse of a ceiling caused 5 injuries during a graduation ceremony in Monterrey

The sky came to a group of students and their guests, who celebrated this Saturday a graduation party in a room of the International Business Center (Cintermex), in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon.

It's happened when the ceiling sank on guests and graduates of the Faculty of Medicine, from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), and at least 5 guests were injured, but were transferred to the University Hospital.

State civil protection authorities have reported that they received the emergency call after midnight on Saturday and immediately went to the place Paramedic paramedics of the Red Cross and the Ministry of Health, as well as elements of the civil force of Nuevo León.

The collapse occurred in the Salón Magno, located on the fifth floor of Cintermex, which is part of the Parque Fundidora complex, where a ceiling of about 10 meters long by 6 wide fell on about 4 tables of hosts.

Local security personnel informed the authorities that there were about 2,000 people in the place, only 5 of whom were injured.

The wounded have been identified like Teófilo Alonso Fernández López, 62 years old; David Ibarra Ovalle, 63 years old; Benigno Nieto Nieto, 65 years old; Karla Marcela García Kuri, 48, and Dinora García Kuri, 51 years old.

At the hospital, they reported that the wounded were stable, who got hit from the ceiling by falling on the tables where they were.

After the accident, civil protection authorities cordoned off the area to badess the state of the show soffits, which has a dimension of 80 meters by 80 meters and is divided into 9 sections.

After the review, they detailed in a report that, with the exception of one section, the rest of the panels covering the roof of the room is damaged and most are not in its place.

Following the accident and the civil protection report, The expert services of the Attorney General's Office have been seen and the civil protection inspection service of Nuevo León.

The authorities will inform about the conditions of the place at the conclusion of an expert report that will evaluate the security of the facilities of the Grand Hallwhere happened the incident that ruined the party in college.