They found Miguel, the young man on the street who lived under the collapsed Line 12 bridge.

After the testimony of a young man in the street about the accident on metro line 12, business man Simon levy offered a reward for finding his whereabouts. Through his Twitter account, he announced that the person who found it would receive the sum of 8,000 pesos.

“Whoever finds this young man and helps me locate him in Mexico City, I will give 8,000 pesos to whoever finds him.” Can you help me spread the word? “announced the Mexican government’s former Under Secretary for Planning and Tourism Policy.

It took the user a few hours Jaime Ortega gave news of the young man from Tabasco. In the same social network, the citizen posted a photograph in which the two appeared; In addition, he decided to donate the reward offered by Simón Levy to Miguel.

“@SimonLevyMx here we are with Miguel, the money you offered, I want to donate to him. Miguel walks past my work with his bag where he collects pets, I hope you can help him too . Rt please @A_ausdenRuthen # Linea12DelMetro #lineadorada “, wrote.

For its part, The 31-year-old businessman thanked the gesture of solidarity and asked for Ortega’s data. “Thank you very much Jaime !!! Send me your info at [email protected] to give this to you today and talk to Miguel. Well done!!! Miguel has already appeared! “.

At around 10:15 p.m. on May 3, residents of the Los Olivos neighborhood noticed a loud noise: a section between Tezonco and Olivos stations of metro line 12 had collapsed.

Within moments, civil protection personnel, aid and security agencies, and government officials in Mexico arrived in the area. However, shortly thereafter, loss of life began to be reported; on the other hand, the wounded were transferred to public hospitals.

One of the videos that transcended social media was the testimony of Miguel, a man of Tabasco origin who lives on the streets and who witnessed the moment of the tragedy. According to the young man, he had just returned from one of his daily days and was with his friends chatting under the bridge of olive trees, a place where he usually spends his nights.

“Yesterday I came to sell my powder bottles near the mines and came back. I was about nine-thirty in bed with my friends, we were talking. It was plus or minus 10 at night when we heard it like an iron thundering, the sidewalk we were lying on was shaking, under the second pillar, where the pots are.

But it was really shaking ugly and thundering and moving and we ran away, we didn’t even pull our covers. When all of a sudden we ran and fell, because the big wrong work came and we saw how the metro went in two. It sank, a horrible despair that I don’t wish on anyone, ”he said.

After the release of the clip, initiatives sprang up on social media to find Miguel’s whereabouts. User Mariana Ceja (@an_autumn_bird) wrote on her Twitter account: “Hello! Many of us are #Research to support him and his colleagues who live on the streets. If you live in Tláhuac, could you help us locate you? We will thank you very much ”.

For his part, the user @alejilloTol thanked people for their interest in finding the young man from Tabasco. “WE HAVE ALREADY FOUND MIGUEL !!!!! Thanks to @Jimtururu. We will continue to be very aware of what is going on with him. Thanks @an_autumn_bird for starting this, to @SimonLevyMx for their generous support and help and to all who lovingly joined. We will continue to inform “.

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