![]() She added that a Norwegian firm had been hired to investigate. Initial analysis pointed to a “presumed structural failure,” Sheinbaum said, promising a thorough and independent inquiry. He was a good father, good husband and good son.” “I’m tired and unable to sleep,” Miramar said. Pineda is survived by his wife, two children ages 7 and 13, and his mother. Now they had found 38-year-old Carlos Pineda, a man he described as a soccer fan and buoyant personality. The 25-year-old student had been awake since beginning an “exasperating” odyssey the previous night that took them to seven hospitals and multiple prosecutor’s offices in search of his uncle. On Tuesday afternoon, Carlos Miramar waited under a tent on metal chairs with two other relatives to receive the body of his uncle. Children were among the fatalities, Sheinbaum said. Of the 24 killed, 21 died at the scene, while the others died at hospitals. On Tuesday, a crane carefully lowered a train car containing four bodies to the ground. as a train passed along the elevated section, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said. Monday night's accident was one of the deadliest in the history of the subway, and questions quickly arose about the structural integrity of the mass transit system, among the world's busiest.Īnother 27 people remained hospitalized of the more than 70 injured when the support beams collapsed about 10:30 p.m. The line had to be partly closed in 2013 so tracks could be repaired.MEXICO CITY - The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway. Like many of the dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of nine million but is on elevated concrete structures on the outskirts.Īllegations of poor design and construction on the subway line emerged soon after Mr Ebrard left office as mayor. It stretches far into the city’s south side. The collapse occurred on Line 12, the subway’s newest. Hundreds of police officers and firefighters cordoned off the scene as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to be on the train gathered.ĭespite the fact that the coronavirus situation remains serious in Mexico City, they crowded together waiting for news. Workers remove a damaged subway car (Marco Ugarte/AP) ![]() In 2015, a train that did not stop on time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12. ![]() In March 2020, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and injured 41. The Mexico City Metro - which is among the world’s cheapest with tickets costing about 25 cents - has had at least three serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago. The overpass was about five metres above the road in the borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists. “The cause of the collapse of the beam must be established through an expert investigation,” Ms Sheinbaum said. Mr Ebrard was Mexico City’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when the affected line was built. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard called the collapse “the most terrible accident we have ever had in mass transportation.” Subways cars are lowered with the help of a crane to the ground (Marco Ugarte/AP) The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 on Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a road beneath.Īnother 77 people were injured when the support beams collapsed at about 10:30pm on Monday as a train passed along the elevated section, said Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum in describing one of the deadliest incidents in the history of the subway system, one of the world’s busiest. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |