One deceased and 57 injured left a collision between two Mexico City Metro trains this Saturday, a new accident after the 2021 accident in that system that left 26 dead and 80 injured.
“There are 57 people injured, some of them with minor injuries, but who still reached hospitals and unfortunately one death,” said the mayoress of the Mexican capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, in a brief message to the media from the scene of the attack. accident.
“The person who is most seriously ill is the train driver,” he added. Sheinbaum said the accident had left four people pinned on the trains who have since been rescued.
The mayor also explained that the crash occurred in the morning when two trains collided between the Potrero and La Raza stations, which belong to Metro Line 3, which runs from north to south of the gigantic city.
The local Prosecutor’s Office announced that it initiated an investigation file into the accident.
For his part, the Mexican president, the leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador, expressed his condolences to the victims of the clash.
I regret the accident in the Mexico City Metro. According to what they inform me, unfortunately one person lost his life and there are several injured. My condolences and my solidarity.
– Andrés Manuel (@lopezobrador_) January 7, 2023
“I regret the accident in the Mexico City Metro. As I am informed, unfortunately one person lost his life and there are several injured, ”she said on his Twitter account.
The Mexico City Metro was inaugurated in 1969 and has an extension of 226 kilometers and 195 stations on 12 different lines. In 2021, the authorities calculated that it transported a total of 837 million passengers.
However, the Metro and the Sheinbaum government have been criticized for the lack of maintenance and investment and the accidents that have occurred.
The most serious of these occurred on May 4, 2021 when a Metro bridge collapsed along with a convoy, causing the death of 26 people and injuring hundreds.
In 2020, two trains collided at the Tacubaya Metro station, leaving one death and 41 injured. The following year, the Metro control center caught fire with a balance of 30 injuries. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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