STORY: Mexican authorities reported at least 13 people were killed and 98 others injured after an Interoceanic Train carrying 250 people derailed in the southern state of Oaxaca on Sunday (December 28).

The Mexican Navy said the train, which derailed near the town of Nizanda, was carrying nine crew members and 241 passengers. Of those on board, 139 were reported to be out of danger, while 98 were injured, including 36 who were receiving medical assistance.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said on X that five of the injured were in critical condition, adding that senior officials had been dispatched to the site to assist the families of those killed.

Mexico's Attorney General's Office has already opened an investigation into the incident.

The Interoceanic Train, inaugurated in 2023 under former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, forms part of the broader Interoceanic Corridor project. The initiative was designed to modernize the rail link across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, connecting Mexico's Pacific port of Salina Cruz with Coatzacoalcos on the Gulf Coast.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

SHOWS: NIZANDA, OAXACA, MEXICO (DECEMBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF CIVIL PROTECTION TEAM HELPING VICTIMS OUT OF TRAIN CAR

ASUNCION IXTALTEPEC, OAXACA, MEXICO (DECEMBER 28, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all) (NIGHT SHOT)

2. VARIOUS OF AMBULANCE DRIVING PAST MILITARY PERSONNEL

3. VARIOUS OF AGENTS PLACING BODY IN THE BACK OF A PICKUP TRUCK

4. PARAMEDICS ON SITE

5. PICKUP TRUCK WITH MILITARY PERSONNEL ON RAIL TRACKS

6. VARIOUS OF CIVIL PROTECTION TEAMS AROUND PICKUP

7. VARIOUS OF PARAMEDICS STANDING BY

8. SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS GATHERING NEAR LOCATION SITE

9. MILITARY PERSONNEL ON SITE

10. AMBULANCE

11. PEOPLE WATCHING CONVOY OF PICKUPS ON RAIL TRACKS

12. CONVOY OF PICKUPS

13. MILITARY AMBULANCE

14. MILITARY AMBULANCE LEAVING SITE

15. (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LOCAL FROM CHIVELA, ASUNCION IXTALTEPEC, MATILDE ORDAZ, SAYING:

“Yes, unfortunately we found out at 09:00 when a relative came to drop someone off at Chivela station to travel to Coatzacoalcos. Five minutes after getting home, we heard that the train couldn’t leave because only one carriage arrived, the other three derailed. Several fell into the ravine, others were held up by a tree. The first and last carriages had no injuries, but the middle ones had many injured, many with broken feet and shoulders.”

16. VARIOUS OF MILITARY AMBULANCE

INTERNET (DECEMBER 28, 2025) (SOCIAL MEDIA WEBSITE - Access all) (MUTE)

17. SCREENGRAB OF MEXICAN PRESIDENT CLAUDIA SHEINBAUM’S POST ON SOCIAL MEDIA X, READING (Spanish):

“The Secretariat of the Navy has informed me that in the Interoceanic Train accident, unfortunately 13 people died; 98 are injured, five of them seriously. The injured are in IMSS hospitals in Matías Romero and Salina Cruz, as well as in IMSS-Wellbeing hospitals in Juchitán and Ixtepec.

I have given instructions for the Secretary of the Navy and the Deputy Secretary of Human Rights of the Secretariat of the Interior to travel to the site and personally attend to the families; also the delegates of IMSS and IMSS-Wellbeing.

The Secretary of the Interior will coordinate the efforts. I appreciate the support of the Governor of Oaxaca and his team. We will continue to provide updates.”

NIZANDA, OAXACA, MEXICO (DECEMBER 28, 2025) (MEXICAN NAVY HANDOUT - Access all) (MUTE)

18. VARIOUS STILL PHOTOGRAPHS OF DERAILED TRAIN (FACES BLURRED FROM SOURCE)