Officials Rule Theft as Cause of Fatal Train Derailment in Tabasco State Associated Press
go to original August 31, 2013

In this image released by Mexico's National Immigration Institute (INM), an IMN officer watches as a casket, containing the remains of a migrant who died in Sunday's train derailment, is loaded onto a federal police aircraft to be repatriated back to Honduras, at the airport in Mexico City, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013. (AP/INM)

MEXICO CITY— Officials have determined that the theft of some parts from a southern Mexico train track caused a derailment that killed 12 Central American migrants.

The Communications and Transportation Department said Friday that the theft of a metal bar used to join rails and its screws were the “decisive cause” behind the accident Sunday in a remote region of Tabasco state. The rail company’s technicians carried out the investigation.

The rails were not aligned, causing eight of 12 train cars to leave the tracks and flip over. Authorities initially said six Honduran migrants died, but rescue crews found six more victims this week while removing the wrecked railcars.

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