Now they are left without income,” Martínez said. “He was the one who supported the family. Pineda leaves behind his wife and their two children ages 7 and 13.

Luisa Martínez sat outside city government offices in Iztapalapa on Tuesday afternoon awaiting the release of the body of her niece’s husband, Carlos Pineda, a 38-year-old dentist. It hurts so much, so much, so much because of the way it ended.” “I want justice for my husband because a simple apology is not going to bring him back to us,” she said. She and their two children depended on him. She described him as a hard worker, responsible and happy. Rioja finally found him Tuesday at a morgue in the Mexico City borough of Iztapalapa. She said that her husband always took that train after finishing work at a store, but he never returned home and had stopped answering his phone. Gisela Rioja Castro, 43, had been looking for her husband, 42-year-old Miguel Ángel Espinoza. “No one is going to give me my father back, even if they give me 10 million pesos,” Hernández Juarez said, while expressing concern that his mother had been left without a source of income. Hernández Juarez planned to bury his father Wednesday as a string of funerals began across the city of more than 9 million people. “It’s really terrible to see your father that way for the last time.” He said emergency personnel told him his father was crushed beneath other passengers. “My father was recovered without vital signs, with trauma to his thorax, his brain, his feet, his knees,” Hernández Juarez said, gripping the death certificate.

Hernández Martínez was killed instantly, his son Luis Adrian Hernández Juarez said, one of 24 people who died in one of the world’s largest subway system’s worst accidents. The 61-year-old’s train had emerged from beneath the city and was jostling along the elevated portion far from downtown late Monday when two of its bright orange cars suddenly fell into a void. José Luis Hernández Martínez, 61, crossed Mexico City every day on subway Line 12 between his home on the city’s south side and the body shop where he worked repairing mangled cars. Hundreds of friends and family of the dead and the missing descended on the area as police cordoned off several blocks to allow for the complex rescue operation. More: Daytime scenes at site of Mexico metro disaster Sheinbaum said a structural review of the entire line and an in-depth investigation of the cause of the tragedy would begin immediately. The overpass was about 16 feet above the road in Tláhuac, a fast-growing borough on the city's southeast edge. Children were among the fatalities, Sheinbaum said. More than 70 people were also injured. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said 21 died at the scene, while the others died at hospitals. Stunning video from the scene shows the overpass collapsing on a heavily trafficked road, multiple vehicles apparently crushed under the enormous heap of debris amid a cloud of dust and smoke.

'There will be constant information and there is no impunity for anyone.' “A hug to all the people of Tláhuac, to all those who are suffering from this accident,' he said. He promised a thorough probe of the tragedy. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador expressed condolences and solidarity to the families of the victims and to residents of Tláhuac, the borough where the accident took place. Rescuers brought in a crane to stabilize the wreckage so they could safely continue the operation. The overpass collapsed late Monday, sending subway cars plunging from the city's newest subway line toward a busy boulevard. Watch Video: Mexico City overpass collapse kills at least 20Ĭrews worked to untangle subway cars that dangled from a Mexico City overpass Tuesday after a collapse killed at least 24 people in the deadliest accident in the history of one of the world's busiest subway systems.

Mexico overpass collapse