Overview
- Criminal Investigation Agency experts, with the Rail Safety Regulatory Agency, extracted the locomotive’s recorder under Federal Prosecutor oversight and placed the device and files in evidence custody.
- The official death toll is 14; President Claudia Sheinbaum said 17 people remain hospitalized following the late‑December derailment.
- The Federal Ministerial Police delivered the Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec legal representative’s statement, which was added to the investigative file.
- Multidisciplinary forensic analyses continue in genetics, forensic chemistry, digital forensics, civil engineering and architecture, with no timeline yet for conclusions.
- Authorities are inventorying luggage recovered at the site for victim claims with Oaxaca officials; the Navy is evaluating retrieval of a car that fell into a ravine and noted a track check 90 minutes earlier found no anomalies.