Mexico City metro overpass collapses onto road; 24 dead
Train cars on an overpass in Mexico City crashed onto cars below when the overpass collapsed Monday night.
Author: FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ Associated Press
Published: 11:33 PM CDT May 3, 2021
Updated: 6:27 PM CDT May 4, 2021
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — 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.
Monday night's accident was one of the deadliest in the history of the subway, and questions quickly arose about the structural integrity of the mass transit system, among the world's busiest.