An interoceanic train derailed this Sunday (12/28) in the state of Oaxaca, leaving at least 13 dead and 98 injured in Mexico, according to President Claudia Sheinbaum on social networks. The train was carrying around 250 people, including passengers and crew, bound for Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state.
After the incident, security agents were mobilized to the scene. The Mexican Navy reported that 139 people are out of danger and 98 were injured, of which 36 are receiving hospital medical treatment, while the rest were not seriously injured.
The head of the Attorney General’s Office of the Mexican Republic, Ernestina Godoy Ramos, said that an investigation had been opened to determine the causes of the derailment of the interoceanic train.
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According to the Mexican president, “the injured are in the IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as in the IMSS-Bienestar hospitals in Juchitán and Ixtepec.”
“I asked the Secretary of the Navy and the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior to go to the site and personally assist the families, as well as the delegates of IMSS and IMSS-Bienestar,” Claudia reported on social networks.
The Interoceanic Corridor reported in a statement that “nine crew members and 241 passengers were traveling, aboard two locomotives and four rail cars. In this case, the main locomotive derailed.”
Corridor officials added that “they are maintaining a medical support deployment with land ambulances, an air ambulance and around 40 naval medical professionals. In addition, rescue operations are underway, in coordination with authorities from the three levels of government, to provide assistance to people who fell into a ravine approximately seven meters high.”
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