Photos: One dead as freight train topples onto Mexican homes
Efforts were under way to retrieve the body of the elderly victim from the rubble
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Guadalajara: A freight train derailed and toppled onto houses alongside the tracks in western Mexico on Tuesday, killing one resident and injuring three others, emergency services said.
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Two locomotives and 12 train cars overturned in the town of San Isidro Mazatepec in the state of Jalisco, the region's civil protection and fire department said on Twitter.
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Efforts were under way to retrieve the body of the elderly victim from the rubble following the derailment of the lengthy train carrying canola grain.
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It was not immediately clear what caused the accident, which comes weeks after a metro disaster in Mexico City in which 26 people died when an overpass collapsed.
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Prosecutors and independent experts are investigating the causes of that tragedy.
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