Overview
- President Claudia Sheinbaum visited Oaxaca, met with victims and families, and announced 30,000 pesos for each affected person with funeral costs covered by the government.
- The Interior Ministry released an official list of the 13 deceased that includes a 6-year-old and a 15-year-old, and identified journalist Israel Enrique Gallegos Soto; his wife remains hospitalized.
- The federal prosecutor’s office opened an investigation, and the Navy reported it has the train’s black box and that a locomotive left the rails, sending several cars down a slope.
- The passenger convoy on Line Z was carrying 241 travelers and 9 crew between Salina Cruz and Coatzacoalcos when it derailed near Nizanda on December 28.
- Authorities report 98 injured, with patients treated at IMSS, IMSS-Bienestar and ISSSTE facilities, and a family assistance line available at 55-2230-2106.