At least 13 folks have died and 98 have been injured after a train derailed in Mexico on Sunday, in keeping with the Mexican Navy. There have been 250 folks on board.
The derailment occurred in Asunción Ixtaltepec, Oaxaca, on the train’s important line between Veracruz and Salina Cruz.
In an announcement, the navy mentioned that 36 folks required hospital care and the remainder sustained minor accidents. Hundreds of naval personnel and rescue autos have been despatched to the scene, it mentioned.
An investigation will likely be opened to find out the reason for the derailment, Mexico’s Attorney General Ernestina Godoy mentioned in a publish on X.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, additionally addressed the incident, writing on X that she has instructed the Secretary of the Navy and Interior Ministry’s Undersecretary for Human Rights “to travel to the site and personally attend to the families.”
Managed by Mexico’s Navy, the Interoceanic Train hyperlinks Mexico’s Pacific and Gulf coasts. Its important line solely got here into service in 2023, underneath a brand new program by then-Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador to advertise financial growth in southern Mexico and create an alternative choice to the Panama Canal for cargo transport.
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