![]() But, you know, we're still in the pandemic, so ridership has been down. KAHN: Tens of millions use it every week. You know, this is the second-largest metro system in North America after New York. KAHN: This is the newest line of this incredibly busy subway. Are there any signs as to what happened with the infrastructure here? ![]() But this particular line is only 9 years old. KING: The Mexico City subway is about 50 years old, I was reading this morning. But it was - it's just a horrific, terrifying scene in southern Mexico City. One person was reportedly pulled from a car on the busy boulevard below. The structure is above the median of the busy street below, so luckily not a lot of victims in the roadway were hurt. A huge crane was brought in to stabilize the cars so more emergency workers could get in there and get the injured out and many dead. You see videos of rescue workers on ladders trying to get to the victims through the windows. And everywhere, there's just twisted wreckage of cables, concrete, electrical wires and these bright orange cars precariously hanging from what's left of the support structure. They folded into a V shape where they're connected onto a busy boulevard below. And it appears that a concrete girder collapsed, one that holds up the elevated segment of the metro. The collapse happened in this above-ground railway portion in a part of the city, not like in the center of the city where the metro is completely underground. And NPR's Carrie Kahn is with us now from Mexico City. KING: She's saying, "Our main job right now is to take care of all the people who were taken to the hospitals, the victims and their families." Now, that city's subway system is one of the biggest and busiest in the world. The city's mayor, Claudia Sheinbaum, briefed reporters early this morning at the scene of the crash. ![]() In Mexico City, at least 23 people died and dozens have been hurt after an overpass collapsed onto a busy street while a full subway train was traveling on it.
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