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Mexico's Slim to repair collapsed metro line, president says

FILE PHOTO: Employees work as part of the investigations in front of the site where an overpass for a metro partially collapsed with train cars on it, in Mexico City, Mexico May 19, 2021. REUTERS/ Henry Romero/File Photo

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's construction firm will fix the damage on a collapsed Mexico City metro line at no cost so that it can re-open in a year, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday.

The accident on an elevated stretch of the Line 12 last month killed 26 people.

(Reporting by Mexico City Newsroom; editing by Cassandra Garrison)

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