Freight train slams into a bus outside Mexico City and kills at least 10 people

ATLACOMULCO Mexico AP A freight train slammed into a double-decker bus at a journeying northwest of Mexico City early Monday killing at least people and injuring more than agents reported The accident took place in an industrial area of warehouses and factories in the town of Atlacomulco about miles kilometers northwest of Mexico City The state of Mexico s civil defense agency commented via X that government were still working at the site of the accident and the state prosecutor s office revealed it had opened an probe The bus from the Herradura de Plata line was ripped apart by the collision The agency reported people were killed and injured Local media reports mentioned the injured were taken to hospitals throughout the state The bus company did not directly respond to a request for comment The train line Canadian Pacific Kansas City of Mexico proven the accident and sent its condolences to the families of the casualties The Calgary Canada-based company explained its personnel were on site and cooperating with officials Personnel did not this instant give details about how the accident occurred but one video circulated on social platforms proved the bus in heavy traffic slowly moving across the train tracks when the fast-moving train suddenly appeared out of frame ramming the bus at its midpoint The train s momentum carried the bus down the tracks and out of frame There were no visible spanning gates or other stop lights bystanders mentioned But shortly before a m -year-old Miguel S nchez announced he heard the train blow its horn like trains unfailingly do well ahead of the moving across S nchez works at a utility station about yards meters away Cars continued to cross the track in the lead-up to the crash Then the train barreled into the bus Cars going in the other direction stopped traversing the tracks at the time the bus drove onto them though a motorcycle scooted across seconds before the crash The train hit the client side of the bus We heard a crash We thought it was just a car We never thought it would be a bus with so plenty of people aboard S nchez declared Another video demonstrated the bus at rest to the side of the tracks The roof of the bus was gone and people could be seen moving on the top level as the train slowed to a stop A woman could be heard crying Help me help me Shortly after a flood of ambulances arrived to the scene S nchez explained Rebeca Miranda waited beside the tracks Monday for executives to tell her what would happen with the casualties bodies Her sister and her sister s daughter-in-law were on the bus when it was hit around a m she disclosed Her sister was taken to the hospital and was able to speak but the other woman died in the accident Miranda commented They were both domestic workers Miranda commented she couldn t be with her sister in the hospital because she needed to find out what would be done with the other woman s body Miranda mentioned the bus should not have been transiting the tracks just as the train was careening through the intersection It s really unfortunate Why To beat the train Those are lives According to the the greater part contemporary description from Mexico s Rail Transportation Regulating Agency published in September accidents at grade-level crossings are the largest part common and have been on an upward trend in fresh years Last year there were compared to in the review explained The document did not include how plenty of casualties were involved in the accidents Last month six people died when a train hit several vehicles in Guanajuato state In nine people were killed when a freight train struck a traveler bus overcoming the tracks in the central state of Queretaro Fabiola S nchez Megan Janetsky and Mar a Verza in Mexico City contributed to this assessment