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MEXICO CITY — Mexico City’s Human Rights Commission cited evidence Sunday that police may have partly blocked the exit at a nightclub where a stampede killed 12 people, including a 13-year-old girl.
Victims’ relatives demanded that authorities investigate the police raid on the club in search of drug and liquor violations that officials say may have led to Friday’s tragedy.
“There are photographs and witness testimony that police were posted at the exit, and that this created a blockage — a sandwich effect is what one of the witnesses called it,” said Emilio Alvarez Icaza, head of the human-rights commission.
The city’s Public Safety Department said it is looking into the allegations but had no immediate comment.
