{"id":38758,"date":"2025-12-29T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38758"},"modified":"2025-12-29T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:38:34","slug":"mexico-train-crash-kills-13-and-injures-almost-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/mexico-train-crash-kills-13-and-injures-almost-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico train crash kills 13 and injures almost 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>BBC: At least 13 people died and almost 100 were injured after a train derailed in Mexico&#8217;s south-eastern Oaxaca region, the Mexican navy said.<\/p>\n<p>The train, which was travelling between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, was carrying 241 passengers and nine crew members.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 98 were injured, of whom 36 were being treated in hospital, the navy said.<\/p>\n<p>The train derailed as it rounded a bend near the town of Nizanda, officials said. Mexico&#8217;s Attorney General confirmed an investigation was under way.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said five of those injured were in a serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>She said top level officials, including the Secretary of the Navy, were travelling to the site of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Photos from the site of the crash showed rescue workers helping passengers alight the train, which had fallen off the rail tracks and partly tilted over the side of a cliff.<\/p>\n<p>The Interoceanic train, which connects the Pacific port of Salina Cruz with Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Coast, had two locomotives and four passenger cars, the navy said. Mexico&#8217;s navy operates the country&#8217;s railway network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: At least 13 people died and almost 100 were injured after a train derailed in Mexico&#8217;s south-eastern Oaxaca region, the Mexican navy said. The train, which was travelling between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, was carrying 241 passengers and nine crew members. A total of 98 were injured, of whom 36 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38760,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38758\/revisions\/38760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}