At least 53 people were injured on Sunday, five of them with open fractures, when a pavilion collapsed at a hotel in Cancun, a resort on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
The injured people were part of a group of 80 that had been posing for an official photograph on the structure, as part of a sales conference, the town's director of civil protection, Ruben Avalaos told reporters. All work for international firm Unilever.
Authorities have begun investigating the collapse of the pavilion, a portable structure set up at the Gran Melia hotel's golf course. Avlos said that the hotel, a subsidiary of the Spanish chain Melia, would be fined for health and safety violations. A total of 43 people were taken to private hospitals, while 10 people with only minor injures were treated on the scene.
Cancun, in Quitana Roo state, is Mexico's most popular destination for beach goers and a regular destination for business conferences.