AXE Ceremonia 2025: Two Deaths at Music Festival

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Two people died this Saturday at the AXE Ceremonia music festival in Mexico City after a structure collapsed.

The Secretariat of Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection confirmed the deaths, after the victims received medical attention at the event and later at the Rubén Leñero Hospital. The city government stated in a statement that "these unfortunate events were the result of poor oversight of preventive measures by the organizers and operational areas of the Miguel Hidalgo mayor's office."

The city's prosecutor's office has opened an investigation to determine responsibility. The festival continued for several hours until the mayor's office announced its suspension at 11:00 p.m.

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And just so you know, the organizers didn’t suspend the event anyway. 
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Rest in peace to the fallen 

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AXE Ceremonia Festival in Mexico suspended after crane collapse leaves two dead

The AXE Ceremonia festival, which was taking place this weekend at an ecological park in Mexico City, was suspended by local authorities following the death of two people on Saturday (April 5) when a crane transporting a decorative metal object collapsed.

The cancellation was confirmed on Sunday (April 6) in a message on X by the Miguel Hidalgo mayor’s office, the borough where the event venue is located.

“The teams from the Miguel Hidalgo Government and Legal Affairs, along with the borough’s Civil Protection department and the Administrative Verification Institute of Mexico City, completed the inspection and placed suspension seals at the entrances to AXE Ceremonia in Bicentennial Park,” the mayor’s office stated in its message.

Mexican newspaper El Universal confirmed the identity of the victims, Miguel Angel Rojas, 26, and Berenice Giles, 28, of structure collapse. They were photographers. Music portal Mr. Indie also confirmed this on Sunday, through a statement.

“With deep sadness we say goodbye to our friends and colleagues, Berenice Giles and Miguel Hernandez, who lost their lives while doing their journalistic work. Both were an essential part of Mr. Indie, a media that exists thanks to the passion of people like them,” the document states. “From our space, we want to honor their dedication, their love for music and photography, and their commitment to this project that was also theirs”

Following the crane collapse and the two fatalities it caused, AXE Ceremonia continued on Saturday with headline performances by Natanael Cano, British pop diva Charli XCX, and South Korean boy band Tomorrow X Together. The festival’s director, Diego Jiménez, had stated in a prior interview that an attendance of 55,000 people was expected on the first day.
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/axe-ceremonia-festival-suspended-two-people-dead-1235940073/