By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A small airplane crashed into a Bodega Aurrerá supermarket in the municipality of Temixco, Morelos, on the afternoon of Monday, March 28, killing all three passengers aboard. Morelos Governor Cuauhtémoc Blanco reported that first responders were on the scene almost immediately, providing assistance to three persons injured in the crash. According to Flightaware, a
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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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At least 19 people were killed and three others were injured when multiple vehicles crashed on a highway near the municipality of Chalco in central Mexico, authorities reported on Saturday, Nov. 6. The accident occurred at midday when a fuel truck suffered from a brake malfunction, crossed into the opposite lane and crashed into six other vehicles at a toll
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XINHUA At least 16 people were killed on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 2, when a passenger bus and two trailer trucks collided on the Sonoyta-San Luis Rio Colorado highway in Mexico’s northern state of Sonora, the state’s Attorney General’s Office said. Another 22 people were injured, six seriously, the office said on Twitter. The National Guard reported that the
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF A helicopter belonging to the Mexican Navy in which Veracruz Interior Secretary Éric Cisneros was traveling, crashed after takeoff on Wednesday, Aug. 25, while carrying out reconnaissance work for the care of victims of Hurricane Grace. Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García said that Cisneros was injured but that his condition was “stable.” The accident occurred
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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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By KELIN DILLON The tragic collapse of Mexico’s Line 12 metro on May 3, which left 26 dead, was related to vital failures in the structure’s construction, said a preliminary report released by the independent Norwegian investigative authority DNV. The Norwegian experts interviewed Mexican metro personnel including directors, coordinators, train operators and institutional security personnel to compile its comprehensive report.
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AMLO Sends Condolences to Line 12 Metro Victims
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum offered the relatives of the 26 fatal victims of the May 3 Line 12 Metro crash a financial compensation of just 650,000 pesos (about $32,500) each, the families filed a joint action law suit against the city late Friday, May 7. In an interview with El Financiero newspaper,
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XINHUA At least 13 people were killed and 21 injured after a passenger bus veered off the road in southeast Mexico and crashed into a wall before daybreak on Monday, Sept. 28, according to local authorities. The crash was reported at 5:30 a.m. local time on the road between the towns of La Trinitaria and Frontera Comalapa, in the southern
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