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She also said children were among the dead. An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent a subway car plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 77, city officials said. She said 77 of the injured were hospitalised.

“The cause of the collapse of the beam must be established through an expert investigation,” Ms Sheinbaum said.Įarlier she said someone had been pulled alive from a car that was trapped on the road below. Mr Ebrard was Mexico City’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when the line in question was built, and the collapse could represent a major blow for him. Overpass collapse on Mexico City metro kills at least 24. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard called the collapse “the most terrible accident we have ever had in mass transportation”. It is one of the deadliest episodes in the history of the city’s subway system.

Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum explained that one of the concrete beams collapsed as the subway train passed over it. MEXICO CITY (AP) 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. Cranes were brought in yesterday to lower the car down. Rescuers found four bodies trapped inside a rail car that was dangling from the overpass but were unable to remove them. Officials say 24 people were killed when an elevated section of Mexico City's metro collapsed as a train was traveling along it. Seventy-nine people were also injured in the incident. An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed, sending a subway car plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 15 people and. A NUMBER of children were among at least 24 people killed when an elevated section of the metro in Mexico City collapsed.Īn overpass broke in half as a train moved over it, sending two carriages plunging toward a busy boulevard on Monday night.