Metro de Medellín reported progress in the investigation of the death of workers - Medellín - Colombia

The Medellin Metro reported that it has already delivered to the authorities the internal report on the possible causes of the accident that occurred on February 3 at the Sabaneta station and in which the workers assigned to the company Carlos Mario López Correa and Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa died.

According to the mass transportation company, this investigation was carried out 15 days after the incident occurred and will be input for the investigations carried out by the corresponding entities.

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Although it did not report the results in detail, the Medellín Metro clarified that the signaling modernization process that it recently carried out and that came into operation in November 2021, “did not affect the accident, since this technology is not related to the safe development of visual inspections on the railway”.

It should be remembered that The incident occurred when a commercial train, with passengers, ran over two Metro workers who were carrying out work on the railway at that station, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley.

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Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa and Carlos Mario López Correa, the workers who died.

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Until now, the only hypothesis is that there were flaws in the protocol established in this road inspection work that both workers carried out.

“Normally they are welds that are checked during the day to intervene at night. But it is not an unusual procedure, it is totally normal and that is precisely why it gives more impact to experience this situation, ”explained the manager of the Metro, Tomás Elejalde.

For now, the investigations of this fact that shocked the inhabitants of the capital of Antioquia continue and it is expected that in the next few days there will be an official statement from the authorities that analyze the causes of this accident.

MEDELLIN

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Metro de Medellín reported progress in the investigation of the death of workers - Medellín - Colombia

The Medellin Metro reported that it has already delivered to the authorities the internal report on the possible causes of the accident that occurred on February 3 at the Sabaneta station and in which the workers assigned to the company Carlos Mario López Correa and Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa died.

According to the mass transportation company, this investigation was carried out 15 days after the incident occurred and will be input for the investigations carried out by the corresponding entities.

(You may be interested in: Video: shooting between police and cable thieves in El Retiro, Antioquia)

Although it did not report the results in detail, the Medellín Metro clarified that the signaling modernization process that it recently carried out and that came into operation in November 2021, “did not affect the accident, since this technology is not related to the safe development of visual inspections on the railway”.

It should be remembered that The incident occurred when a commercial train, with passengers, ran over two Metro workers who were carrying out work on the railway at that station, located in the south of the Aburrá Valley.

(In context: ‘Protocols failed’: Metro manager on death of two workers)

Gustavo Adolfo Atehortúa and Carlos Mario López Correa, the workers who died.

Photo:

courtesy citizenship

Until now, the only hypothesis is that there were flaws in the protocol established in this road inspection work that both workers carried out.

“Normally they are welds that are checked during the day to intervene at night. But it is not an unusual procedure, it is totally normal and that is precisely why it gives more impact to experience this situation, ”explained the manager of the Metro, Tomás Elejalde.

For now, the investigations of this fact that shocked the inhabitants of the capital of Antioquia continue and it is expected that in the next few days there will be an official statement from the authorities that analyze the causes of this accident.

MEDELLIN

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Iran Supreme Leader Urges Nuclear Energy Progress Amid Talks

TEHRAN, Iran — 

Iran’s supreme leader vowed Thursday that his country would ramp up development of its civilian nuclear program, as major world powers continued delicate talks in Vienna to revive Tehran’s landmark nuclear deal.

In a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the importance of nuclear energy for Iran, while again asserting that it had no interest in nuclear weapons.

Khamenei’s remarks seemed clearly aimed at the countries involved in the Vienna talks.

“Enemies are making cruel moves against our nuclear energy issue, [putting] sanctions on nuclear energy that they know is peaceful,” he said. “They do not want Iran to achieve this great and significant progress.”

The accord, which former President Donald Trump abandoned nearly four years ago, granted Iran sanctions relief in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Ali Bagheri Kani, tweeted late Wednesday that the parties were “closer than ever” to an agreement.

But talks have repeatedly stalled in recent months as Iranian negotiators press hard-line demands, exasperating Western diplomats.

Khamenei, who so far has largely stayed silent on the negotiations, called claims that Iran was pursuing a bomb “nonsense,” saying they were meant to deprive Iran of its legitimate right to nuclear power.

“If we do not pursue [peaceful nuclear energy] today, tomorrow will be late,” he said.

Iran long has insisted its nuclear program is peaceful. But the country’s steps away from its obligations under the 2015 accord have alarmed its archenemy Israel and world powers.

Tehran has since started enriching uranium up to 60% purity — a short technical step from the 90% needed to make a bomb — and spinning far more advanced centrifuges than those permitted under the deal.