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Like many of the city’s dozen subway lines, it runs underground through more central areas of the city of 9 million, but then runs on elevated, pre-formed concrete structures on the city’s outskirts. With little information and a still serious coronavirus situation in Mexico City, López said “they are not telling us anything, and people are just crowding together.” The collapse occurred on the newest of the Mexico City subway’s lines, Line 12, which stretches far into the city’s southside. “We lost contact with her, at 10:50 p.m., there was literally no more contact,” López said. Six months pregnant, she was riding the subway home from her work as a dentist when her phone stopped answering around the time the accident occurred. Oscar López, 26, was searching for his friend, Adriana Salas, 26. Hundreds of police officers and firefighters cordoned off the scene as desperate friends and relatives of people believed to be on the trains gathered outside the security perimeter. Rescue efforts were briefly interrupted at midnight because the partially dangling train was “very weak.” “We don’t know if they are alive,” Sheinbaum said of the people possibly trapped inside the subway car. “A support beam gave way,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the beam collapsed just as the train passed over it. The overpass was about 5 meters (16 feet) above the road in the southside borough of Tlahuac, but the train ran above a concrete median strip, which apparently lessened the casualties among motorists on the roadway below. “There are unfortunately children among the dead,” Sheinbaum said, without specifying how many. Dozens of rescuers continued searching through wreckage from the collapsed, preformed concrete structure. Sheinbaum said a motorist had been pulled alive from a car that was trapped on the roadway below.