OVERPASS COLLAPSE KILLS 23
MEXICO CITY Mexico will find out who was responsible for the overpass collapse that killed at least 23 people and injured dozens more when a train on Mexico City's newest metro line plunged onto a busy road below, the government said on Tuesday.
“There's no impunity for anyone,” Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
Firefighters using heavy chains to stabilize the site pulled bodies and survivors from the wreckage. Some 79 people were injured, including three children.
Video on social media showed the moment when the overpass plummeted onto a stream of cars near the Olivos station in the city's southeast around 10:30 p.m. local time, sending up clouds of dust and sparks.
“Everybody screamed and we fell on top of each other. I was thrown on top of everybody. I fell on everybody,” a passenger named Monserrat, 26, told Mexican radio.
The overpass was part of Linea 12, an addition to the network finished less than a decade ago and long plagued by allegations of corruption.
Investigations will be carried out by both the attorney general's office and an external auditor, the government said.