At least 13 people have died and dozens more are being treated for their injuries after a train derailed in Mexico, authorities have said.
The accident happened between the towns of Chivela and Nizanda in the southern state of Oaxaca, on a line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.
Some 250 people, including 241 passengers and nine crew members, were on board the train, according to details released by the Mexican Navy.
At least 13 people were killed, the navy said, with 98 injured – including 36 who needed hospital medical assistance.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said on X that five of the injured are in a critical condition.
Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office has already opened an investigation into the incident, Attorney General Ernestina
Godoy Ramos said in a post on social media.
The Interoceanic Train launched in 2023 under the country’s former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It forms part of the broader Interoceanic Corridor project, designed to modernise the rail link across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec – connecting the Pacific port of Salina Cruz with Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Coast.
The Mexican government has sought to develop the strip of land into a strategic trade corridor, expanding ports, railways and industrial infrastructure with the goal of creating a route that could compete with the Panama Canal.
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