Moscow metro accident site part of Russian Railways-controlled area - agency
MOSCOW. Jan 22 (Interfax) - "According to preliminary information," the site of an accident in Moscow on Wednesday in which an electricity pole collapsed and broke through the ceiling of a metro tunnel, damaging a train, is part of an area controlled by the Russian Railways (RZD) company, a spokesman for the city Construction Supervision Committee said.
"Pylons for overhead wiring were being put up," the spokesman told Interfax.
Earlier, the metro press office told Interfax a tunnel between the Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya metro stations of the Zamoskvoretsky line had been punctured with a construction pole,
"The emergency was found at 3.28 p.m. in the direction moving traffic away from the center. No one has been injured in the incident and no passengers are in the tunnel between the Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya metro stations," the press office said.
Train services have been stopped on the Zamoskvoretskaya line due to the incident, the press office said.
Train services are currently being held between the Rechnoi Vokzal and Avtozavodskaya stations and between the Orekhovo and Alma-Atinskaya stations, the press office said. While the consequences of the incident are being dealt with, the metro has asked the Mosgortrans federal unitary enterprise to provide buses in order to transport passengers at the metro section which are not working, the press office said.
A similar accident occurred on the Zamoskvoretskaya line on March 19, 2006, when a tunnel between the Voikovskaya and Sokol stations was damaged during the installation of an advertisement board. The pole, which broke through the tunnel, damaged a train with no casualties.
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