With 250 people on board, the train had left Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, on the Pacific coast, and was headed to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, on the Gulf of Mexico. “139 people are out of danger, 98 injured (…) and unfortunately 13 people lost their lives,” the Mexican Navy, which operates the railway line, said in a statement.
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At least 13 people died and another 98 were injured this Sunday in a train accident in the state of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, authorities reported.
With 250 people on board, the train had left Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, on the Pacific coast, and was headed to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, on the Gulf of Mexico. “139 people are out of danger, 98 injured (…) and unfortunately 13 people lost their lives,” the Mexican Navy, which operates the railway line, said in a statement.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that the injured are in hospitals in the towns of Matías Romero, Salina Cruz, Juchitán and Ixtepec, all in Oaxaca.
“I have given 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,” he added.
Earlier, the Mexican Navy had reported 20 injured people and indicated that the accident had occurred “near Nizanda, Oaxaca,” when “the derailment of the main engine” of the train occurred, made up of “two locomotives and four cars.”
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The Navy added that it is in coordination with the transportation authorities to “determine the causes of the events” and recover the operation of the railway. For its part, the country’s Attorney General’s Office said it opened investigations to find out the causes of the accident.
“Ministerial agents of the federal prosecutor’s office in Oaxaca, as well as expert and police personnel, coordinate with federal and state authorities to carry out the respective investigations,” said Attorney General Ernestina Godoy, on the social network X.
The train followed the route of the so-called Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which connects the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific and usually transports cargo and passengers. It was inaugurated in 2023.
This railway is one of the most important infrastructure works of the government of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), as part of a strategy to promote the economic development of southeastern Mexico.
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