Original title: Mexico City Rail Transit was shut down due to fire and 1 person died
Xinhua News Agency, Mexico City, January 9th (Reporter Wu Hao) Claudia Hinbaum, the mayor of Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, said on the 9th that a fire broke out at a rail transit facility in the city that day, killing one person, at least 30 people. Injured, 6 rail transit lines were suspended.
In an interview with the media, Hinbaum said that that morning, a fire broke out in a rail transit control center in the center of Mexico City, and firefighters controlled the fire after arriving. The fire killed one security guard and injured many others. It is preliminarily judged that the fire was caused by the failure of transformers and other facilities.
Hinbaum said that the fire control center is responsible for controlling the operation of multiple rail transit in the city. For safety reasons, the operation of the 6 lines has been suspended. The government uses other public transportation and police vehicles to transfer passengers. Mexico City has not had a rail transit outage of this scale before.
Data show that there are 12 rail transit lines in Mexico City. In 2018, Mexico City’s rail transit passenger volume exceeded 1.6 billion passengers.
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