Justice still awaits one year after metro train collapse in Mexico City

Record ID: 1671305

  • Title: Justice still awaits one year after metro train collapse in Mexico City
  • Date: 4th May 2022
  • Summary: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO (MAY 3, 2022) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF METRO TRAIN COLLAPSE VICTIMS’ RELATIVES PROTESTING PROTESTER HOLDING SIGN READING (Spanish): “When corruption exists, memory resists.” PROTESTER HOLDING BANNER READING (Spanish): “#Line 12, never forget. Corruption that kills. Everyone united against corruption.” RELATIVES HOLDING VICTIM’S PORTRAIT GENERAL VIEW OF PROTEST (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) METRO COLLAPSE SURVIVOR, DANIEL HERNANDEZ, SAYING: “It’s something terrible that I wouldn’t wish on anyone: seeing blood, body parts, the bodies that just seconds before were alive next to me. Regardless of them not being my relatives or people I knew, they were human beings. It’s something horrible, something very hard that has taken me a lot of time to cope with but fortunately, I’m making progress.” VIEW OF VICTIM’S PORTRAIT HANGING FROM CLOSED METRO STATION GATE VARIOUS OF WOODEN CROSSES WITH VICTIMS’ NAMES ON THE GATE FLOWER OFFERING FOR VICTIM GENERAL VIEW OF METRO’S GATE WITH WOODEN CROSSES (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) METRO COLLAPSE VICTIM’S SISTER, YOLANDA BARRIOS, SAYING: “It’s the first anniversary of my brother’s death. We were waiting for him but he never came home again.” VARIOUS OF CONSTRUCTION SITE AT THE POINT OF COLLAPSE VIEW OF SIGN READING (Spanish): “Ground zero reconstruction.” VARIOUS OF CONSTRUCTION SITE AT THE POINT OF COLLAPSE
  • Embargoed: 18th May 2022 04:54
  • Keywords: Mexico City justice metro train line collapse anniversary protest
  • Location: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Disaster/Accidents,South America / Central America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001560704052022RP1
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  • Story Text:Relatives of victims from a deadly metro train collapse marched in Mexico City on Tuesday (May 3) to mark the one year anniversary of the tragedy.
    With photos of their family members and wooden crucifixes bearing their names, a small group gathered to pay homage to the 26 people who died when an overpass and train carriage on Metro Line 12 suddenly plummeted onto a stream of cars near the Olivos station in the southeast of the city.
    An independent auditor's report released by the city government last September stated that the collapse was caused in part by missing bolts in beams in an overpass that already had deficiencies before a major earthquake.
    Since then, Mexico City's Attorney General has said there is evidence to charge a number of people and companies linked to the collapse.
    Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has said his construction firm, Grupo Carso, which helped build the section that collapsed, will repair the line at no cost to the government.
    (Production: Manuel Carrillo, Gerardo Gomez)
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