Rescue workers accessing the wreck

24 dead and 70 injured  after metro overpass collapse in Mexico City

23 dead as bridge collpase and derail a overground train
23 dead as bridge collapses and derail an overground train
Rescue workers accessing the wreck
Rescue workers accessing the wreck
Bridge collapses
Bridge collapses
Collpased train carriages
Collapsed train carriages
Metro carraige being lifted by heavy crane
Metro carraige being lifted by heavy crane

Several train carriages plunged to the ground crushing at least one car killing 24 people and dozens injured after a metro overpass collapsed at around 22:00 local time on Monday (03:00 GMT) near the Olivos station on the metro’s Line 12, in the south-east of the city,  in Mexico City while a train was travelling on it, several carriages plunging to the ground crushing a car. Rescue workers and firefighters are searching for survivors after the accident in the capital late on Monday.

Local residents had earlier reported cracks in the structure after a deadly 2017 earthquake which transport authorities claim made some repairs.

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum confirmed 23 people were confirmed dead, and 70 injured.

There are feats that the death could rise further as some people may still be trapped under the rubble.

Mariana a 26-year-old passenger survivor of the crash said “We only heard a loud thunder, and everything fell apart”.

Mexico City’s metro system is one of the world’s largest rapid transit systems, most used in the world, carrying 1.6bn passengers a year, tens of millions of passengers a week.  Line 12, complete only recently in October 2012.