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Navy-Run Interoceanic Train Derails in Oaxaca, Killing 13 and Injuring 98

Federal prosecutors opened an inquiry into the crash, with Navy teams mounting rescues near Nizanda.

Mexican Army soldiers and Civil Protection members rescue passengers from the Interoceanic train that derailed in the Asuncion Ixtaltepec area on the route to Oaxaca, Mexico, on December 28, 2025.
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Mexican Army soldiers and Civil Protection members rescued passengers from the Interoceanic train that derailed in the Asuncion Ixtaltepec area on the route to Oaxaca, Mexico on December 28, 2025.
Mexican soldiers and Civil Protection members rescue passengers from the Interoceanic train that derailed in Nizanda, Oaxaca state, on the route to Coatzacoalcos, Mexico, on December 28, 2025.

Overview

  • Officials said the passenger train partially left the tracks near Nizanda/Asunción Ixtaltepec on a curve, with 241 passengers and nine crew aboard.
  • Thirty-six people were hospitalized and five were in critical condition, according to President Claudia Sheinbaum, with patients taken to nearby IMSS facilities.
  • Sheinbaum directed the Navy secretary and an Interior Ministry human rights official to the site as the Interior Ministry coordinated the response with Oaxaca authorities.
  • Hundreds of naval and emergency personnel were deployed, including efforts to assist people who fell down a slope near the wreck, and rail traffic on the line was suspended.
  • Attorney General Ernestina Godoy opened a formal investigation into the cause, and while some passengers reported the train felt very fast, any brake or speed issues remain unconfirmed.