One dead, 57 injured in accident on Mexico City metro - Reuters Canada

MEXICO CITY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 57 were injured successful a bid collision connected Mexico City's metro aboriginal connected Saturday, section authorities said.

The idiosyncratic killed successful the greeting mishap was a young woman, metropolis information caput Omar Garcia told section media Grupo Milenio.

Garcia shared an updated database of the injured aboriginal connected Saturday, and the city's mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, said connected Twitter that she was astatine the site.

Four others who were trapped connected 1 wagon connected Line 3 were rescued and are successful bully health, Garcia said earlier.

A assortment of accidents person taken spot connected the metro successful caller years. The astir superior was the May 2021 illness of a obstruction overpass connected Line 12 that killed 26 radical and injured much than 60.

Maintenance shortcomings were identified arsenic one of that accident's causes.

Reporting by Lizbeth Diaz successful Mexico City; Writing by Julia Symmes Cobb; Editing by Leslie Adler

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