Metro CDMX crash: Sheinbaum reports medical discharge to 26 injured. Photo: Darkroom
The head of government of the Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaumreported a deceased woman and the medical discharge of 26 injured by the train crash on the Subway Line 3 who arrived at the San Ángel Inn Chapultepec Hospital for care.
Omar Garcia HarfuchSecretary of Citizen Security, updated the list affected until reporting a total of 59. However, Sheinbaum ‘cut’ this figure to 57 at a press conference.
The official revealed that 26 people went home without any complications to the news media at the San Angel Inn Hospital, where she went to supervise the care of those injured by the accident that took place at 9:15 a.m.
He also noted that none of the patients is reported to be in critical condition, however until 6:50 p.m. on January 7 there was no update on the seriously injured, the driver of one of the trains.
The service of the stations Green Indians to La Raza It was suspended and it will be until the course of Sunday, January 8, that the time that they will remain closed to the public is known. Sheimbaum reported that there will be free bus transportation in the affected area.
At 5:37 p.m., Guillermo Calderón, general director of the Metro Collective Transport System, informed on his Twitter account that the expert reports would continue at the Potrero-La Raza interstation during the following hours to find out the causes of the accident.
The National Union of Workers of the Collective Transportation System (SNTSTC) stated that had warnedthrough banners and posters, that there are no tools or resources to address the problems that arise in the Metro.
I coordinate the maneuvers for the reopening of Line 3, once the expert opinion is concluded. Metro Engineers and Technicians will work uninterruptedly to carry it out safely and as soon as possible. We will keep reporting. pic.twitter.com/MTAxoLICZL
— Guillermo Calderón (@GCalderon_Metro)
January 7, 2023
Arrives by motorcycle to the disaster area
Sheinbaum Pardo suspended his activities in Michoacán, for which he reported that he returned to the capital after the Metro train crash.
According to unofficial information, the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramirez Bedolla, provided a helicopter from the state administration for the return of Sheinbaum to Mexico City. Later, she arrived at the exact area of the incident, between the Metro Poterero and La Raza stations on a motorcycle.
The official declared that there were four people arrested for the collision of the vehicles and that the death of a woman of about 25 years of age who was traveling in the women’s car was reported, which is presumed to have been directly impacted, whose name is Yaretzi, according to sheinbaumwho said that he spoke to his parents to give them his full support.
Sedena implements an operation against disaster
Due to the magnitude of the problem, the Mexican Army implemented a special operation called Plan DN III_E Disaster Relief for the Civil Population implemented by the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) in special cases, in support of the people affected by the train crash on Line 3.
In 1965, the Aid Plan for the civilian population was prepared and included in strategic-military planning, receiving the name of Plan DN-III-E, as it was integrated as annex “E” of the Third Edition of the National Defense Master Plan ( DN-III) then in force.
Claim lawyer for victims of Line 12
The lawyer of the Victims of Metro Line 12, Teofilo Benitezargued that this new tragedy should not go unpunished, because it is another example of the serious conditions in which this Collective Transportation System operates.
He stressed that this is Sheinbaum’s opportunity to clear up the “ghosts of impunity”, so now he must take the current director of the Metro to court, to answer for the death of the woman and all the injured he left behind. this range of trains in the line 3.
Regarding the opposition, the PRD deputy, Luis Ángel Xariel Espinosa Cházaro, through a video, demanded Sheinbaum appear before the Lower House to explain the causes of the multiple accidents that have occurred in recent times in this means of collective transport.
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