One Dead, 57 Injured in Accident on Mexico City Metro

Last Updated: January 08, 2023, 07:06 IST

Members of rescue teams are seen at the Indios Verdes metro station after two trains collided in Mexico City on January 7, 2023. (AFP)

Television footage showed injured passengers being treated in ambulances following the crash, which occurred on the north-south Metro Line Three

Two metro trains collided in a Mexico City tunnel Saturday, killing one person and injuring 57, authorities in the megacity of 20 million reported.

Television footage showed injured passengers being treated in ambulances following the crash, which occurred on the north-south Metro Line Three.

“There are 57 injured people, some with minor injuries, who in any event went to the hospital, and unfortunately one death,” Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said in a brief statement from the scene of the accident.

The train conductor was the most seriously injured person in the collision, which occurred between the Potrero and La Raza stations, she said.

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