At least 24 people were injured, three of them seriously, when a footbridge collapsed Saturday during the inauguration ceremony in Cuernavaca, Mexico, authorities said.
Mayor José Luis Urióstegui was among those who fell about 10 feet (3 meters) onto rocks and boulders in the streambed when the hanging bridge made of wooden boards and metal chains gave way, the city said in a statement.
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The mayor later said that some of the people accompanying him on the inaugural walk had been jumping on the bridge, perhaps in an attempt to make it sway. The crush of officials and journalists on the bridge also may have exceeded its planned capacity, he said.
