Mexico city subway overpass collapses
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“Of course, the causes should be investigated and those responsible should be identified,” he wrote. The line had to be partly closed in 2013 so tracks could be repaired.Įbrard wrote on Twitter: “What happened today on the Metro is a terrible tragedy.” Allegations about poor design and construction on the subway line emerged soon after Ebrard left office as mayor.
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The collapse could represent a major blow for Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, who was Mexico City’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when Line 12 was built. Like many of the city’s dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million, but then runs on elevated, pre-formed concrete structures on the city’s outskirts. The collapse occurred on the newest of the Mexico City subway’s lines, Line 12, which stretches far into the city’s southside. With little information and a still serious coronavirus situation in Mexico City, López said “they are not telling us anything, and people are just crowding together.” “We lost contact with her, at 10:50 p.m., there was literally no more contact,” López said. Six months pregnant, she was riding the subway home from her work as a dentist when her phone stopped answering around the time the accident occurred. Oscar López, 26, was searching for his friend, Adriana Salas, 26. Hundreds of police officers and firefighters cordoned off the scene as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to be on the trains gathered outside the security perimeter. “We don’t know if they are alive,” Sheinbaum said of the people possibly trapped inside the subway car.
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The section passing over a road in southern Mexico City collapsed Monday night, dropping a subway train, trapping cars and causing at least 50 injuries, authorities said. Mexico’s army soldiers hold stretchers as they wait to help in the rescue efforts after a section of Line 12 of the subway collapsed in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Rescue efforts were briefly interrupted at midnight because the partially dangling train was “very weak.” “A support beam gave way,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the beam collapsed just as the train passed over it. The overpass was about 5 meters (16 feet) above the road in the southside borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists on the roadway below. “There are unfortunately children among the dead,” Sheinbaum said, without specifying how many. Dozens of rescuers continued searching through wreckage from the collapsed, preformed concrete structure. Sheinbaum said a motorist had been pulled alive from a car that was trapped on the roadway below. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said 49 of the injured were hospitalized, and that seven were in serious condition and undergoing surgery. A crane was working to hold up one subway car left dangling on the collapsed section so that emergency workers could enter to check the car to see if anyone was still trapped.