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At least 23 dead, dozens more injured after Mexico City Metro overpass collapses
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Replay Video UP NEXT At least 23 people were killed and dozens more were injured after an overpass for the Mexico City Metro collapsed on Monday night, sending a subway car full of passengers plunging toward a bustling boulevard below. The collapse occurred at around 10:30 p.m. local time on the newest of Mexico City s subway lines, Line 12, which runs underground through more central areas of Mexico s densely populated capital but then emerges onto elevated structures along the outskirts. A support beam gave way just as the train passed over it in the southern borough of Tlahuac, according to Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum.
“There are unfortunately children among the dead,” Sheinbaum said, without specifying how many. The overpass was about 5 metres above the road in the southside borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists on the roadway below.
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Mexico City s subway cars lay at an angle after a section of Line 12 of the subway collapsed. “A support beam gave way,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the beam collapsed just as the train passed over it. Rescue efforts were briefly interrupted at midnight because the partially dangling train was “very weak.”
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Horrifying photos from the scene show the extent of the damage (Image: Reuters)
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