(New York) At least 24 people were lightly injured Thursday in New York in a collision between two subways and the derailment of one of the trains, according to emergency services, which sealed off one of the busiest districts of Manhattan .
Three lines of the sprawling network of one of the oldest subways in the world were shut down and the northwest of the main island of the megacity, the Upper West Side district of Manhattan, was completely cordoned off by firefighters , police, and ambulances.
No one was seriously injured in this collision between a train carrying passengers and the other empty and stopped on a track, Ian Swords of the emergency services and Mike Meyers, commander of the emergency services, told reporters at the scene. New York Fire Department.
The New York subway is also extremely dilapidated, but accidents and incidents are very rare and its ridership has started to rise again after being deserted due to the pandemic and an increase in crime between 2020 and 2022.