Once, Buenos Aires: Train Crash Broken Promises On A Line With Roads And Wagon Over 50 Years

Both the Justice and Security ministries confirmed today that all 50 victims of the train crash at Once station yesterday have been identified. The list of injured had increased to 703 people this morning, however, 46 patients were registered to be currently admitted to hospitals across the Capital. The names and surnames of the 50 victims, 28 women and 22 men, were not to be published immediately, officials said. Earlier today, Social Development Minister Alicia Kirchner and Health Minister Juan Manzur gave a press conference in order to announce that "46 people were still in hospital" and out of those "three were critical cases."

The Once tragedy is part of a “critical scene railway,” both by the state it is in the infrastructure, such as operating conditions in which services are delivered.

Beyond the causes that provoked the accident and the proper role of the private concessionaire TBA, primarily responsible for the deficient state of the railways are national officials of the Government who are responsible for implementing transport policy.