Death toll rises to 24 after overpass collapse on Mexico City’s newest metro line
Updated May 04, 2021;
Posted May 04, 2021
Workers remove a damaged subway car after it was lowered, with the help of a crane, to the ground from a collapsed elevated section of the metro, in Mexico City, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The elevated section of the metro collapsed late Monday, killing at least 23 people and injuring at least 79, city officials said. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)AP
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MEXICO CITY — The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway.