Mexico City subway has collapsed families of victims to get compensation New Mexico

At least 26 people were killed and dozens more injured when a subway collapsed in the Mexican capital on Monday.

Families of more than two dozen people he died when a train crossing fell The city’s mayor has announced that he will receive financial compensation in Mexico City last week as the country continues in the wake of the deadly incident.

Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that about $ 35,000 (700,000 pesos) will be put into the families of the 26 people who died on May 3.

Relatives will receive about $ 2,500 (50,000 pesos) from the city, as well as $ 32,650 (650,000 pesos) from the subway line, Sheinbaum said.

“We will not leave them alone,” he said at the press conference. “We will be with them and give them all the support they need.”

More than 80 people were also injured in the fall of an elevated section of the 12-meter line line southeast of Mexico City.

Calls for accountability have grown funerals for the victims have been held in recent days, and hundreds of people protested in the city on Friday to demand answers.

Sheinbaum and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had previously promised that an in-depth investigation into the incident would take place.

“There will be an in-depth investigation … to find out the truth,” Lopez Obrador said he said the day after the incident. “From there, the responsibility will be established.”

The attorney general’s office, his counterpart in Mexico City, and the foreign auditor, DNV GL of Norway, are being investigated, government officials said.

It has been questioned whether the subway network has been properly maintained since Sheinbaum took office in 2018.

Line 12 was built by Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard as mayor of Mexico City.

Ebrard called the incident “the worst accident we’ve ever had in mass transit.”

Relatives of the victims shared personal stories this week, including Luis Adrian Hernandez Juarez, his 61-year-old father Jose Luis took 12 lines every day to get to his job in a car body shop.

After obtaining his father’s death certificate, Hernandez Juarez said emergency personnel told him that his father was crushed under other passengers. “It’s really awesome to see your dad like that for the last time,” he told The Associated Press.

Meanwhile, some travelers who travel regularly online said they had long feared that such an event would happen.

“Since it opened, it was terrifying,” AP worker Isabel Maria Fuentes told line 12.

But he said the subway provides service to the capital’s low-income neighborhoods, which didn’t seem to be a priority. “We’re the same people we always pay for.”