Hope: AMLO did not react with empathy to the tragedy of the subway 0:40
(CNN Spanish) -
The Mexican flag flies at half mast.
Mexico City is in mourning.
The tragic accident in which a section of Line 12 of the capital's elevated metro collapsed has claimed the lives of at least 25 people and left dozens more injured.
Enrique Bonilla, a survivor of the accident, told CNN's Perspectives from Mexico that when he managed to get out of a window and then saw the cars collapsed over the cars, he felt that he was "born again."
However, other passengers who were traveling with him were not so lucky.
Authorities are already investigating what caused the crash, but residents have reported that there were already problems with the subway and that they had seen social media posts denouncing the failures.
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Relatives carry the coffin with the remains of Juan Luis Díaz Galicia during his funeral in Mexico City on May 5, 2021. Juan Luis Díaz died in the subway accident after an elevated line collapsed in the capital of Mexico.
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Family members attend the funeral of Juan Luis Díaz Galicia in Mexico City on May 5, 2021. (Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP via Getty Images)
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Juan Luis Díaz was one of the victims of the collapse of a section of the elevated subway in Mexico City.
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Women hold up a sign that reads "It was not an accident, it was negligence" at the scene of an accident.
The president of Mexico promised on Tuesday an in-depth investigation to find those responsible.
(Photo by CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP via Getty Images)
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A car under the rubble of the accident site.
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Aerial view of the works to remove the damaged subway after the collapse.
(Photo by Héctor Vivas / Getty Images)
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Passengers board a bus to make the route of Line 12 of the subway.
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Passengers queue for transportation in the area of the Mexico City elevated metro accident.
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A trailer takes away one of the subway cars that collapsed.
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The accident occurred between the Olivos and Tezonco stations on line 12 of the subway at 10:00 p.m. local time.
(Photo by Héctor Vivas / Getty Images)
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The Mexican flag flies at half mast in the Zócalo Square in Mexico City on May 5, 2021, after at least 25 people were killed in the elevated subway accident.
(Photo by PEDRO PARDO / AFP via Getty Images)
Why the Mexico City Metro Accident is a Foretold Tragedy
How will the expertise be carried out?
This is how it would be known what caused the tragedy of the Mexico subway 7:17
In an interview with Mario González from CNN, Sergio Alcocer Martínez, a researcher at the Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), explained how the expert report "based on evidence" would be carried out to identify the causes of the collapse of the subway.
This is what he said about how the study of so-called forensic engineering would be carried out:
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«It is necessary to hire expert personnel, in Mexico we have plenty of expert personnel to be able to carry out an expert opinion, which allows:
Identify the conditions in which the collapse is found, what is currently being done, a
survey of how the steel beams that were holding the tracks on which the metro convoy circulated fell.
Later, once the material samples have been taken, they are taken to the laboratory to be studied in terms of the resistance of concrete and steel, for example,
as well as to study the welds that would have been used to join the metallic elements.
From this, desk studies are made, numerical studies, which allow us to propose different causes that could have led to the collapse and from this evidence to discard one to one of these causes.
Will the tragedy have a political impact?
Will the metro tragedy in Mexico impact politically?
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After the tragedy, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, decreed three days of national mourning.
"We send our condolences to the families of the victims of this accident and the position of the city government is supported by the federal government, about what proceeds in this unfortunate case," López Obrador said in his morning press conference.
Now, analysts wonder if the Mexico City subway accident will have political consequences.
The security analyst Alejandro Hope, in an interview with Camilo from CNN, believes that “a public infrastructure of a company managed by the State collapsed, it is an eminently political issue wherever you look at it.
The anti-corruption policy is under discussion, the austerity policy is under discussion ”.
What was the reaction of President López Obrador to the tragedy of the metro in Mexico City?
Where can you see the list of those killed and injured by the tragedy?
A family and two victims in the collapse of the Mexico subway 8:14
The Government of Mexico City set up a web page where you can consult information about the people hospitalized, deceased, not located and located at their home after the May 3 tragedy in the capital's subway.
They find a lifeless minor who was traveling in the subway that collapsed in Mexico City
You can see the full list here.
Mexico City metro