The accident was due to the collision of two cubicles, causing the cable to break and one of them to detach.
A person died and twenty they turned out wounds behind the drop this Wednesday from one of the cabins of the Medellín cable carthe second city of Colombiareported the mayor, Federico Gutiérrez.
The cubicle released in the early morning when he was about to arrive at one of the stations of the system, called Metrocable, the president said in his account on the social network X.
One of the cable car routes “will be suspended until the causes of this tragedy are clearly identified,” Gutiérrez added.
The deceased was identified as Jhon Londono, as detailed by the company Metro de Medellín in a statement. The 55-year-old man was admitted to the emergency department with “multiple traumas” and died due to the “severity of the injuries,” the CES Clinic indicated in a medical report.
At first there was talk of nine injuredHowever, the figure was later raised by emergency agencies and the Metro company, operator of the transportation system.
The accident occurred in the northeastern area of Medellín, when a cabin hit another at the station entrance and detached from the cable, indicated the manager of the Medellín metro, Tomas Elejaldewithout specifying the height at which it was when it fell onto the platform, next to a track but without affecting cars.
Elejalde said in statements to the press that it was a unusual accidentbeing the first time which has been happening since its inauguration in 2004. He also specified that apparently there is no general failure of the entire transportation system and that preliminarily They identified a specific problem in one of the cabins.
The director of the Administrative Department of Disaster Risk Management, Carlos Andrés Quinterosaid that while they were carrying out relief efforts, some 200 people they remained in the 40 cabins who were in the transport system and were later evacuated.
