A man lost his life this Monday morning after being run over by the subway at the Tirso de Molina station. The accident, whose causes are the subject of investigation, occurred at 9:20, when two men apparently went down to the tracks to urinate, before one of them was hit by the train. Emergencies Madrid has confirmed the death of the approximately 25-year-old man, “without being able to do anything for this person”, due to “irreversible injuries”. The firefighters have removed the body, after authorization from a judge. The service of metro line 1 was suspended between the Sol and Estación del Arte stations, in both directions, between the time of the accident and until 11:40.
Sources from the National Police have revealed that the victim was a man of Colombian nationality, born in 1998. The man did not respond to the resuscitation maneuvers applied by the paramedics. The first witnesses interviewed by the authorities have commented that two men went down to urinate on the train tracks, one of them did not manage to get on the platform again when the car entered the station and then the collision occurred. The investigation has been left in the hands of the Mobile Brigade – Transport Police, which is in charge of investigating the events that occurred within public transport.
The Samur Civil Protection teams that went to Tirso de Molina have treated two other people for anxiety crises, due to the impact that witnessing the accident caused them.
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