The mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, announced on Thursday the deployment of more than 6,000 National Guard elements in stations and “other facilities” of the capital’s subway, after a series of incidents that she described as unusual. .
Sheinbaum, one of the favorites of the ruling Morena to contend for the presidency of Mexico in the 2024 elections, said that she asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador just on Wednesday for the support of the National Guard, a militarized police force, after several “atypical” episodes “.
On Saturday, a train crash in the capital’s subway left at least one woman dead and 57 others injured. The accident followed the May 2021 collapse of the track overpass between two stations, killing 26 people.
The mayoress, very close to the president, who reiterated her full support on Thursday, recounted that on the same day the trains collided another problem occurred at a station, the next day another incident and on Wednesday one more on the tire of a wagon that had been serviced a day before.
“They are actions, moments, atypical events that are occurring in the subway,” Sheinbaum said during López Obrador’s morning conference.
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