Overview
- The derailment occurred at 09:28 between Nizanda and Chivela on Line Z from Salina Cruz to Coatzacoalcos, after a locomotive left the rails and four cars came off, with one sliding 6.5 meters down a slope.
- Authorities said roughly 250 people were aboard, including 241 passengers and nine crew.
- Officials confirmed 13 fatalities, including a child, with 44 people still hospitalized; one person remains unaccounted for and is included in the death toll.
- Rescue operations deployed 360 naval personnel with 20 vehicles, four ground ambulances, three air ambulances and a drone, and victims were taken to IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero, Salina Cruz, Juchitán and Ixtepec.
- The Fiscalía General de la República and Oaxaca state prosecutors are leading the criminal investigation, and all operational data from the Pulse recorder is under chain of custody.