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 and several dead, authorities said. Mexico CityвЂ™s subway cars lay at an angle after a section of Line 12 of the subway collapsed in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Despite the fact that the coronavirus situation remains serious in Mexico City, they crowded together waiting for news. Hundreds of police officers and firefighters cordoned off the scene as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to be on the train gathered. In October 1975, at least 26 people were killed in a metro accident. 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 worldвЂ™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 5 meters (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. She said 77 of the injured were hospitalized, adding that children were among the dead. REUTERS/Luis CortesД®arlier, she said someone had been pulled alive from a car on the road.

Rescuers work at a site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it at Olivos station in Mexico City, Mexico May 3, 2021. вЂњThe cause of the collapse of the beam must be established through an expert investigation,вЂќ Sheinbaum said. Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard called the collapse вЂњthe most terrible accident we have ever had in mass transportation.вЂќ Ebrard was Mexico CityвЂ™s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when the affected line was built. in one of the deadliest episodes in the history of the cityвЂ™s subway system, which is among the worldвЂ™s busiest. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said one of the concrete beams collapsed as a train passed over it about 10:30 p.m. A crane carefully lowered the car to the ground Tuesday. It was not clear if those dead were included among the toll of 23. Rescuers found four bodies inside a rail car that was dangling from the overpass but were unable to remove them. MEXICO CITY - An elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed and sent the train plunging toward a busy boulevard late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.

Mexico city subway overpass collapse