This Wednesday, June 26, a cabin of the line K of the Medellín Metrocable He collapsed 10 meters high, when he came from Santo Domingo.
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According to Tomás Elejalde, director of the Medellín Metro, “a cable car that came down from that sector, before entering Santa Lucia, hits another cabin, we still don’t know why that hit occurs, and that is what generates the drop”.
Medellín metrocable emergency.
Photo:Photo Jaiver Nieto Álvarez. @jaiverpress
It is the first time, in 29 years that the Medellín Metro has operated, that an accident of this type has occurred, so the service was temporarily suspended.
In the emergency they turned out 21 people were injured and Jhon Jairo Londoño, a 49-year-old man, was the fatal victim of this incident.
Londoño was injured by the fall of the cable car and died while being transferred to a medical center and attempts to revive him were in vain.
“The male patient was admitted with multiple traumas, he was given care in the Emergency Department, but he died due to the severity of his injuries,” explained the CES Clinic, where the man died.
Accident with Medellín cable metro cabin leaves one person dead and 20 injured.
Photo:Jaiver Nieto Álvarez / El Tiempo
One of the people who was injured speaks
Estéfani Rendón, who was one inside the cabin who fell and was injured by the emergency, spoke with Caracol Radio about the minutes of anguish he experienced this Wednesday morning, while he was heading to work, like every day.
There, he indicated that he was on board the cable car when, from one moment to the next, he began to feel that the cable was swinging quite strongly. “You feel it when it collides with the other cabin and we are the ones who suffer the impact, we are the ones who fell to the ground. “It’s all I remember.”
He explained that the cabin in which he was traveling began to swing so hard that for that reason he collided with the one in front, and then fell to the ground. “Thank God it was at the Popular station, which is a lower part,” she commented.
He also said that he saw the last moments of life of Jhon Jairo, the deceased victim: “It was very shocking to see all those people around me. I saw how the man died, who was the one who received all the impact.”
He noted that the fatal victim was sitting inside the cabin and was the first person to receive medical attention.
Accident with Medellín cable metro cabin leaves one person dead and 20 injured.
Photo:Jaiver Nieto Álvarez / El Tiempo
Estéfani also assured that, although she was stable, she had to undergo surgery: “At this moment I am stable. I’m waiting for the diagnosis [para saber] If they should operate on my leg. I definitely had a fracture in my pelvis, they told me I was going to be in special care, but so far I am stable, now a little calmer.”
The woman also indicated that, at the moment of impact, the first thing she thought was that she was going to lose her life. “Since the impact was so strong, I said: ‘Now, I’m not going to be in this world anymore.’ It was horrible, really.”
“The attention was very fast. At the time I was very scared, I was crying, but the attention was felt immediately, on the part of the Metro and on the part of the paramedic,” she said about the care received after the emergency.
Finally, although he assured that this was the first time something like this happened to him using the Metrocable, for the moment he does not want to use this means of transportation again: “No, not really, with that trauma, the truth is that one would not use it again ”, he commented.
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