– Europa Press/Contact/Tong Lian
MADRID, December 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
At least thirteen people died and nearly a hundred were injured this Sunday in southern Mexico when the main locomotive of the Interoceanic passenger train derailed near the town of Nizanda, in the state of Oaxaca.
As the Secretariat of the Mexican Navy reported in a statement, thirteen people lost their lives and 98 were injured, of which 62 “receive hospital medical care”, while the rest do not present “serious injuries”.
However, the remaining 139 people on board the affected train, which was carrying 250 people, including nine crew members, “are out of danger”.
The accident, which affected the railway line that connects the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrowest in the country between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, led the Secretariat itself to deploy an extensive research and assistance system, affirming that “it will continue to collaborate in a coordinated manner with the competent authorities to clarify the facts.”
The country’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, also echoed these figures and said through the social network
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