1Two wagons of line 12 of the Mexico City subway collapsed at approximately 10 pm on a main avenue when a bridge collapsed between the Olivos and Tezonco stations.
Firefighters and members of civil protection have begun to remove the bodies of the twenty deceased around two in the morning.
Hector Guerrero
2Claudia Sheinbaum, the head of government of Mexico City, reported from the scene of the incident, on Tláhuac avenue: “A trabe [beam] was defeated. WARRIOR
3 The structure collapsed on the vehicles that were circulating on Tláhuac Avenue as they passed through the bridge, according to images from public security cameras, which captured the moment of the collapse.
In the image, an aerial view of the collapsed wagons.
GLADYS SERRANO
4 After the accident, the security forces closed the streets around the Olivos metro station.
In the image, neighbors and relatives await updates on the incident.
GLADYS SERRANO
5 The collapse has killed more than twenty people and injured dozens.
HECTOR GUERRERO
6The entrance street to the Belisario Roldán hospital was blocked by some 50 ambulances transporting victims of the accident and by dozens of relatives looking for their loved ones.
In the picture, the mother of a missing person shows her photo.
GLADYS SERRANO
7 "Among the victims there are also minors," Sheinbaum has acknowledged to the media from the scene of the incident.
"Unfortunately there are 65 people hospitalized, seven are being operated on in the operating room," he added at three in the morning.
Hector Guerrero
8Rescuers work in the area of the accident.
HECTOR GUERRERO
9 Hospitals in the south and southeast of Mexico City have been filled with people looking for the names of their children, husbands or siblings on the lists that have been posted on the doors of some centers and shared on social networks.
Hector Guerrero
10Emergency services and Civil Protection personnel, as well as members of the Mexican Army, were deployed throughout the area, which was cordoned off.
GLADYS SERRANO
11 Emergency personnel search for survivors in the wrecked wagons.
Hector Guerrero
12A car damaged by the fall of the bridge at the Olivos metro station.
HECTOR GUERRERO
13The site of the collapse of the subway section in Mexico City.
HECTOR GUERRERO
14Neighbors and relatives await the progress of the rescue efforts.
GLADYS SERRANO
15 National Guard agents keep the area closed.
Hector Guerrero
16An ambulance transfers the injured from the accident from the Olivos station to the Tláhuac General Hospital.
Nayeli Cruz
17 Families of the injured await information at the Tláhuac General Hospital.
Nayeli Cruz
18The General Hospital of Iztapalapa has also received injured people in the collapse of line 12 of the metro.
Nayeli Cruz
The collapse of a section of the Mexico City metro, in images
2021-05-05T08:44:44.951Z
The collapse of a bridge when the train on line 12 was passing causes more than twenty deaths and dozens of injuries