Mexico City train crash: 24 people dead in overpass collapse
The elevated track on Line 12 fell on to a road, killing at least 24 people on Monday. Many more were injured. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said "nothing would be hidden" while the mayor said an external company would be involved in the inquiry. But family members have been getting increasingly frustrated waiting for information on relatives. People have held protests calling for culpability as the country comes to terms with the deadliest incident in decades for the city's metro system.
Officials refused to speculate on the cause of the disaster, which sent two carriages crashing into passing traffic on the street below on Monday night. The city’s mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, promised a thorough investigation by an outside firm and the federal prosecutor’s office though she stood by the embattled director of the metro, Florencia Serranía. There will be accountability,” she said at a tense press conference on Tuesday.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for a swift and open investigation. There’s no impunity for anyone,” he told reporters. López Obrador is a former mayor of Mexico’s capital, and he and his allies have governed it since 2000. Footage from security cameras showed the overpass collapsing on to a busy street about 10.30 pm on Monday night, leaving one of the wagons dangling precariously. We only heard a thunderous noise, and everything started coming apart,” a survivor identifying herself as Mariana. “We were sent flying and hit the ceiling.”
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