Train derailment kills 13 in Mexico

By ANNIE CORREAL

A passenger train derailed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca on Sunday, killing at least 13 people, according to Mexican authorities.

Nearly 250 passengers and crew members were on board when the front engine derailed near the village of Nizanda, causing the train to partially plummet down an embankment, according to local media reports.

As of Sunday evening, officials had not determined a cause. Authorities, including the federal prosecutor’s office, said an investigation had been opened.

Rescue teams worked to reach passengers, some of whom were trapped or fell down the slope. On Sunday evening, the secretariat of the navy said that 98 people had been injured, with 36 hospitalized.

President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on the social platform X that five of the injured were in critical condition. She said officials had been sent to the scene to support the families of those who had died.

The derailment occurred on the Z Line of the Interoceanic Railway of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, which runs about 180 miles from Salina Cruz on the Pacific to Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf of Mexico.