Train accident in southern Mexico leaves at least 13 dead and dozens injured

Mexico City, Mexico — Officials said a bid mishap successful confederate Mexico killed astatine slightest 13 radical and injured dozens, halting postulation on a obstruction enactment connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.

The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went disconnected the rails Sunday arsenic it passed a curve adjacent the municipality of Nizanda.

"The Mexican Navy has informed maine that, tragically, 13 radical died successful the Interoceanic Train accident," Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum posted connected X, adding that 98 radical were injured, 5 of them seriously.

Authorities enactment astatine the tract of a bid derailment connected the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a railway enactment connecting Mexico's Pacific and Gulf coasts, wherever respective passengers were killed and injured adjacent Nizanda, Oaxaca state, Mexico, connected Dec. 28, 2025. Jose De Jesus Cortes / REUTERS

She said she instructed the caput of the navy and the undersecretary of quality rights of the Ministry of the Interior to question to the tract and personally assistance the families.

In a connection connected X Sunday, Oaxaca authorities Gov. Salomon Jara said respective authorities agencies had reached the mishap tract to assistance the injured.

Officials said 241 passengers and 9 unit members were connected the bid erstwhile the mishap occurred.

The Interoceanic Train was inaugurated successful 2023 by past President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The obstruction work is portion of a broader propulsion to boost bid question successful confederate Mexico and make infrastructure on the isthmus of Tehuantepec, a constrictive agelong of onshore betwixt the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

A graphic shows wherever astatine slightest 13 radical were killed and 98 injured erstwhile an Interoceanic bid derailed successful Mexico's confederate authorities of Oaxaca connected Dec. 28, 2025. Mehmet Yaren Bozgun / Anadolu via Getty Images

The Mexican authorities plans to crook the isthmus into a strategical corridor for planetary trade, with ports and obstruction lines that tin link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Interoceanic bid presently runs from the larboard of Salina Cruz connected the Pacific Ocean to Coatzacoalcos, covering a region of astir 180 miles.

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