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The Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced this Sunday, January 8, that the deputy director of operations of the Metro, Alberto García Lucio, was dismissed from his positionafter the accident that occurred on Saturday morning between the Potrero and La Raza stations on Line 3.
“I gave the instruction to the Director General of the Metro Guillermo Calderón first that he give all the information available to the Attorney General’s Office of Justice and second the removal of the deputy director of operations of the Metro to be able to carry out the investigations“said Claudia Sheinbaum.
“I have asked that the deputy director of operations retire from his post,” said Guillermo Calderón, Director of the capital’s Metro.
At a press conference, the capital authorities also reported that So far, 22 people of the 106 who were injured continue to be hospitalized in the train crash that left a 25-year-old woman named Yaretzi dead.
“We reiterate all our support to all the injured people, to the family of the unfortunate death of Yaretzi, of this young woman”, commented the Head of Government.
Claudia Sheinbaum recalled that The Mexico City Attorney General’s Office (Fgjcdmx) has already begun investigations to determine the causes of the accident and delimit responsibilities.
For his part, Guillermo Calderón, Director of the Metro, also announced the creation of a Committee of experts to supervise the review work carried out in the capital’s metro.
“Its immediate function will be to verify, supervisethe revisions that by protocol are made to the trains, stations, terminals every day with specialized personnel and that is monitoring the continuous operation in workshops, train pits and throughout the 21 stations that the line has”, he explained.
The official said that this Committee will be made up of specialists from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and UNOPS.
It was the morning of this Saturday, January 7, that a new accident was recorded in the Mexico City Metro Collective Transportation System on the so-called green Line 3.
This new accident is the third to occur during the administration of the Head of Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, of which the most serious was recorded on May 3, 2021, when an elevated bridge on the Gold Line collapsedin the Tláhuac City Hall, in the south of the Mexican capital, leaving 26 dead and a hundred injured.
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