At least 13 people died and 98 were injured, 36 of them hospitalized and five seriously, due to the derailment of the Transisthmian train, part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (CIIT), which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, reported the Secretary of the Navy (Semar).
“As a result of this accident, 139 people are out of danger, 98 injured, of which 36 are receiving hospital medical attention and the rest are not seriously injured, and unfortunately 13 people lost their lives,” Semar said in a statement.
The agency expresses its condolences to the families of the people who lost their lives in this unfortunate accident and reaffirmed its commitment to address the case with maximum responsibility, transparency and adherence to the law, providing immediate support to those affected.
He also explained that during the search and location actions for people, a total of 360 naval agents, 20 vehicles, four ground ambulances, three air ambulances and a tactical drone were deployed.
Previously, the institution had counted 20 injured people, whom it said were transferred to local hospitals for timely medical attention.
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Meanwhile, the head of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), Ernestina Godoy, indicated that after the events that occurred, the institution under her charge began an investigation to find out the causes of what happened and to this end, agents from the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) coordinate with federal and state authorities to carry out the respective investigations.
In a first statement, the Secretary of the Navy indicated that the CIIT indicated that “a railway event was recorded” near the Zapotec community Nizanda, in the municipality of Asunción Ixtaltepec, state of Oaxaca, on Line Z, “in which 9 crew members and 241 passengers were traveling, aboard two locomotives and four passenger cars.”
Line Z, inaugurated in 2023, runs from Veracruz (Atlántico) to Salina Cruz (Oaxaca) and is 212 kilometers long.
For her part, President Claudia Sheinbaum, in a message on social networks, in which she specified that she gave “instructions for the Secretary of the Navy and the Undersecretary of Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior to go to the place and attend to the families personally.”
With this new interoceanic communication route, Mexico seeks to boost international trade by uniting Asia with the east coast of the United States and Europe through that passage, the narrowest point in the country that connects the Pacific with the Atlantic and that seeks to compete with the Panama Canal.
With information from EFE
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