PULSE NEWS MEXICO At least 10 people remained trapped as the result of a landslide at the Las Conchas mine, located in Sabinas, in the carboniferous region of the Mexican state of Coahuila on Wednesday, Aug. 3, authorities reported. The collapse occurred in one of the shafts of a coal pit when the miners were working. After the collapse, the
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XINHUA At least nine people were killed Wednesday, July 27, after multiple vehicles crashed in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero state, just outside Acapulco, local authorities said. According to a preliminary report from state security officials, the accident occurred around 6:35 a.m. local time along the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo Highway, in Guerrero’s Costa Grande region. Apparently, the driver of a private
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By KELIN DILLON Just days after the first year anniversary of Mexico City’s deadly Line 12 Metro accident, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has filed a civil suit against Norwegian company DNV for their third-party investigation into the causes of the lethal tragedy – a report which placed the blame for the crash on shoddy construction and tanked Line 12
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By KELIN DILLON In the one year following the May 3, 2021, tragic Line 12 metro accident in Mexico City that killed 26 passengers, few steps have been taken to ensure the preventable accident does not happen again, nor that its victims are taken care of. The collapsed portion’s reconstruction is still lagging on, Mexico City has avoided civil litigation
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF At least 86 people were injured early Thursday, April 7, when a public transport bus crashed along Mexico City’s Avenida Reforma, ramming into the side of a Metrobús vehicle, authorities reported. According to Miguel Hidalgo Mayor Mauricio Tabe, there were no serious injuries and all 85 victims were transferred to nearby hospitals. Miguel Hidalgo
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XINHUA At least 13 people were killed and 10 injured when a passenger van crashed in the Central Mexican state of Jalisco on Saturday, Jan. 29, local authorities reported. The Jalisco Civil Protection and Fire Department said on Twitter that the vehicle was transporting tourist personnel and overturned at Kilometer 35 of the Leon-Aguascalientes highway in the municipality of Lagos
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XINHUA At least 55 people were killed and 104 others injured Thursday, Dec. 9, when a trailer truck packed with more than 150 migrants, mostly from Central America, overturned on a highway near Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of Mexico’s southern state Chiapas, according to that state’s Civil Protection Agency. According to the agency’s director, Luis Manuel García, the accident occurred
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XINHUA At least 19 people were killed and more than two dozen others injured on Friday, Nov. 26, after their bus crashed into a house in the town of Joquicingo in central Mexico due to a brake malfunction, a local officials said. The brakes on the bus, which was heading to a religious shrine in the State of Mexico (EdoMéx)
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XINHUA At least one person died and 15 others were injured in an explosion near an illegal tap on a pipeline belonging to Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) oil company in the central state of Puebla, local authorities said on Sunday, Oct. 31. Puebla Governor Miguel Barbosa said in a press conference that the accident occurred near a liquefied petroleum
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By KELIN DILLON The Leitner company, the same manufacturer that is building Mexico’s Line 2 cable bus system, is now being investigated for a deadly cable car malfunction in Italy that left 14 dead and one child injured on May 23. The tragic accident occurred after one of the lead cables holding up the structure broke, crashing the cars to
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