A Tren Maya worker transported the body of his co-worker over 100 kilometers aboard a backhoe without any authority helping him.
According to unofficial information, on Tuesday, July 9 afternoon, J. J. P. P., 24 years old, was working at kilometer 30 of the Bacalar-Felipe Carrillo Puerto federal highway, very close to the turnoff to Mahahual and about 2 kilometers from the town of Limones.
The backhoe fell into a sinkhole. The operator was ejected from the cockpit, causing various injuries that led to his death within minutes.
Another worker tried to help him, but he could not do anything. He said that there was no one from his crew nearby, so he asked the motorists for support, but none of them stopped.
At night and desperate, he loaded the body onto the backhoe to take him to a hospital. However, on the journey, which lasted more than 8 hours, fear made him take the body to the town of Sabidos, in the region on the banks of the Hondo River and more than 100 kilometers from where the accident occurred.
After the long trip, the body of the deceased worker arrived at 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday. In Sabidos, the family of the victim received the body and prepared it for the funeral.
However, an anonymous call informed Emergency 911 and agents of the State Rural Police (PRE), whose agents confirmed this fact. The authorities took the body to perform an autopsy.
The preliminary ruling showed that death was due to head trauma and broken vertebrae. The authorities seized the backhoe as evidence and detained the person who moved the body.
In a separate incident in Bacalar, water runoff caused by storms that have hit the southern area of Quintana Roo has affected a large stretch of construction of the Tren Maya tracks.
The water has spread west of the city, moving and flooding part of the train route. Days before, the effects were evident in the populated area, that is, in the Diego Rojas neighborhood, where the water rose to 3.5 meters high and flooded houses and vehicles after the rains caused by tropical storm Alberto.
The water covers at least 1.5 kilometers of a half-built railroad section and now remains underwater.
David García, a neighbor affected by the floods, explained the water dropped just a few centimeters in some areas. Still, it spread west, where the water rose several meters in just one night.
He said that one and a half kilometer away from the Diego Rojas neighborhood, the Tren Maya passes, where the water went in recent days and where there are areas where the water rose several meters.
Environmental specialists warned military engineers that the Bacalar and Chetumal surroundings are flood-prone. However, the warning was of little use since the work continued.
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