“That part there was already declared bad. The scene shook him because he had exited the metro at that same station earlier in the day. Helicopters landed at a nearby Walmart to ferry the injured to hospitals. He saw a cloud of dust and falling debris followed by an eerie silence until emergency vehicles began arriving. Julio Yañez, a 67-year-old lawyer whose apartment overlooks the collapsed metro line, was working at his computer when he heard a loud noise and felt his building shake. Authorities at the time had done patchwork repairs on the columns and horizontal beams. In October 1975, at least 26 people were killed in another accident.Ī magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 exposed dangerous construction defects in the elevated line near where Monday’s accident occurred. 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. “Then a guy in a white shirt with blood on his arms, his hands and chest came out and another guy came to help him here on the sidewalk, and he was there trembling,” he said.

The overpass was about 5 metres (16 feet) above the road in the borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists.Ībelardo Sánchez, a 38-year-old cook, was just closing up his sandwich shop beside the metro line when he said the ground shook, a tremendous noise echoed, lights flickered and the air filled with dust and the smell of burning wires. “I did not have any report nor alert of any problem that could have led us to this situation,” she said. 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. 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.

Mexico city subway overpass collapse