She said that her husband always take that train after finishing work at a store, but he never got home and had stopped answering his phone. Gisela Rioja Castro, 43, was looking for her husband, 42-year-old Miguel angel Espinoza. 'He is down there now,' he told journalists pointing toward the site. He said that his sister-in-law was rescued and sent to a hospital, but that his half-brother Jose Juan Galindo was crushed and he feared he was dead. Despite the fact that the coronavirus situation remains serious in Mexico City, they crowded together as they waited for news.Īdrian Loa Martinez, 46, said that his mother called him to tell him that his half-brother and sister-in-law were driving when the overpass collapsed and that beam fell onto their car. Hundreds of police officers and firefighters cordoned off the scene Tuesday as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to be on the train gathered outside the security perimeter. In 2015, a train that did not stop on time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12.

In March of last year, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and injured 41 people. The Mexico City Metro has had at least two serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago. 'A support beam gave way' just as the train passed over it, Sheinbaum said. 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 on the road below. 'There are unfortunately children among the dead,' Sheinbaum said, without specifying how many. She said 49 of the injured were hospitalized, and that seven were in serious condition and undergoing surgery. 'We don't know if they are alive,' Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said of the people possibly trapped inside the car following one of the deadliest accidents in the city's subway system, which is among the busiest in the world.Įarlier Sheinbaum said someone had been pulled alive from a car that was trapped on the road below. A crane was brought in to help shore it up. Rescue efforts were temporarily suspended earlier in the night due to concerns over the stability of the subway car, which was still dangling over the road.Those efforts were suspended early Tuesday, however, because of safety concerns for those working near the precariously dangling car. There were no other people trapped, the mayor said. The mayor said one survivor was trapped in a vehicle beneath the rubble, but has since been freed. Sheinbaum tweeted from the scene: 'Firefighters, public safety personnel are working.

local time, according to Mexico City's Interior Minister Alfonso Suarez Del Real. The train was traveling on an elevated part of the city's rapid transit system on the newest Line 12, also known as the Golden Line, when part of the overpass collapsed onto traffic below, Mexico's Secretariat of Risk Management and Civil Protection said.ĬCTV surveillance footage shows the moment the overpass collapsed onto the street, sending up a cloud of dust and debris. MEXICO CITY - An overpass carrying a subway train collapsed in Mexico City late Monday, killing at least 23 people, including children, according to local government officials.Īt least 65 people have been hospitalized, seven of whom are in serious condition, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said, CNN reported.

Mexico city subway overpass collapse