Emergency services arrived at the scene of a metro collapse that killed 23 and left at least 65 injured in Mexico on May 4.
Footage shows the collapsed overpass that Metro Collective Transportation System operated on in Mexico City.
Another clip shows medical workers transporting injured residents away from the wreckage for treatment.
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The bridge that collapsed from the Metro Collective Transportation System on Monday night left at least 23 people and around 70 injured, according to José Alfonso Suarez del Real, CDMX government secretary.
The head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbuam, went to the place to do the corresponding work. Around 11:31 p.m. in Mexico, Claudia Sheinbuam arrived at the site and published the first reports through social networks.
“I am in the place. A trab has expired. Firefighters, public safety personnel are working. Attending various hospitals. More information shortly, ”she wrote on Twitter.
"We don't know if they are alive," Sheinbaum said of people possibly trapped inside the car after one of the deadliest accidents on the city's subway system, which is among the busiest in the world.
She said 49 of the injured were hospitalized and seven were in serious condition and undergoing surgery.
Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations, and who began the construction of line 12 of the Mexico City metro during his tenure as head of Government, reacted through social networks to the accident that occurred on the night of May 3 of 2021.
The official expressed his solidarity with the families of the victims, in addition to requesting that the causes behind the tragedy be investigated.
In addition, he made himself available to the authorities to contribute at all times to the definition of responsibilities around the accident that shook the Mexican capital.
“What happened today in the Metro is a terrible tragedy. My solidarity to the victims and their families. Of course, causes must be investigated and responsibilities defined. I reiterate myself at the entire disposal of the authorities to contribute in whatever is necessary, "wrote the public official.
For the care of the people who were injured by the subway accident, authorities reported that the General Hospitals of Tlahuac and General of Iztapalapa have been enabled to receive patients.
The collapse occurred on the newest of Mexico City's metro lines, Line 12, which runs to the south side of the city. Like many of the city's dozens of subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million people, but then runs over elevated preformed concrete structures on the outskirts of the city.
The Mexico City Metro, one of the largest and busiest in the world, has had at least two serious accidents since its inauguration half a century ago.
In March last year, a collision between two trains at the Tacubaya station left one passenger dead and 41 people injured. In 2015, a train that did not stop in time crashed into another at the Oceania station, injuring 12 people.
