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“A thorough investigation will be carried out … to know the truth,” Lopez Obrador said the day after the incident. Sheinbaum and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador earlier promised that a thorough investigation into what happened would be conducted. More than 80 people were also injured in the collapse of an elevated section of the Line 12 metro line in southeast Mexico City.Ĭalls for accountability have grown as funerals for the victims were held over the past several days, and hundreds of people protested on Friday in the city to demand answers. “We are going to be with them and we are going to give them all the support they require.”

“We are not going to leave them alone,” she said during a news conference. The relatives will receive about $2,500 (50,000 pesos) from the city, as well as $32,650 (650,000 pesos) from the metro train line, Sheinbaum said. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Saturday that about $35,000 (700,000 pesos) would be made available to families of the 26 people who died on May 3. The families of more than two dozen people killed when a train overpass collapsed in Mexico City last week will receive financial compensation, the city’s mayor has announced, as the country continues to reel from the deadly incident.