(Mexico City) About twenty users were slightly intoxicated on Monday after a short circuit in the Mexico City metro, the latest episode in a series of incidents which have led to tighter security in one of the busiest networks. frequented in the world.
“A large mass of smoke” caused “the slight intoxication of about 20 users” who were treated, explained the director of the metro Guillermo Calderón to the television channel Milenio.
The prosecution has opened an investigation, he said.
On January 7, an 18-year-old student died and around 50 other people were injured following a collision between two trains.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum announced five days later the dispatch of 6,060 National Guard officers to the subway.
Possible presidential candidate in 2024, Mme Sheinbaum implied that it was a question of preventing possible acts of sabotage, according to the analysis of the Mexican press.
On January 15, a wagon separated from a train, causing a new traffic stoppage.
In May 2021, 26 people died when an air bridge collapsed when a train passed.
The opposition denounces the lack of investment in the metro, built in 1969 by the Parisian RATP and which transported 837.4 million passengers in 2021 according to local authorities.