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May 5, 2021

Shoddy construction may have led to deadly overpass collapse in Mexico City

  • A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in 2017 exposed dangerous construction defects in the elevated train line near where Monday's accident occurred.
    • By FABIOLA SÁNCHEZ
    Associated Press

    MEXICO CITY — The death toll from the collapse of an overpass on the Mexico City metro rose to 24 Tuesday as crews untangled train carriages from the steel and concrete wreckage that fell onto a roadway.

    Monday night’s accident was one of the deadliest in the history of the subway, and questions quickly arose about the structural integrity of the mass transit system, among the world’s busiest.


     
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