The president reported that she gave instructions for the Secretary of the Navy and the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior to go to the place and attend to the families personally; also the delegates of IMSS and IMSS-Bienestar.
The Secretary of the Navy informs me that 13 people unfortunately died in the Interoceanic Train accident; 98 are injured, five of them seriously. The injured are in IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as IMSS-Bienestar in…
— Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo (@Claudiashein)
December 29, 2025
The Secretary of the Navy reported this Sunday that a train car in which nine crew members and 241 passengers were traveling, aboard two locomotives and four passenger cars, suffered a “derailment of the main engine.”
“From the first moment, immediate attention is provided to users and coordination is maintained with local authorities to attend to the event, as well as to collect the corresponding technical and operational information,” it said in a first statement.
The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic began an investigation folder to find out the causes of what happened.
Prosecutor Ernestina Godoy reported that “ministerial agents of the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Oaxaca, as well as expert and police personnel from the Criminal Investigation Agency, coordinate with federal and state authorities to carry out the respective investigations.”
