At least 20 people were killed and 70 injured after an elevated section of the Mexico City metro collapsed.
A train was running on the bridge when the overpass collapse. A subway car then plunged towards a busy boulevard right after the collapse, leaving at least 20 people died and dozens injured. Children are among the dead. Rescuers used a crane to hold up one subway car left dangling on the collapsed section so that emergency workers could enter the train car to see if anyone was still trapped.
The city’s Mayor expressed her condolences to the victims’ family.
Rescue efforts were briefly interrupted at midnight because the partially dangling train car was about to fall off the bridge.
Police and firefighters cordoned off the area as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to have boarded the trains gathered outside the security perimeter.
The collapse could represent a major blow for Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcello Ebrard, who was the city’s mayor from 2006 to 2012, when that railway route was built. Allegations about poor design and construction on that subway route emerged soon after he left office as mayor. It’s unclear whether a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in 2017 could have affected the structure of the overpass.
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