Monorail
passengers being evacuated with the help of the city Fire and Rescue Department
personnel in Kuala Lumpur.
KUALA LUMPUR: THREE monorail passengers were sent to hospital after they and 180 others were trapped inside a stranded train in Brickfields here yesterday.
During the 2pm incident which lasted for
about an hour, a pregnant woman fainted in the packed train while a man and
another woman suffered minor cuts during the rescue operation.
Passengers had to break one of the windows
for ventilation.
Brickfields police chief Assistant
Commissioner Wan Abdul Bari Wan Abdul Khalid said the incident happened shortly
after the RapidKL Sdn Bhd train left the Jalan Tun Sambanthan station.
"The city Fire and Rescue Department
personnel arrived about 10 minutes after receiving a report, and initiated the
evacuation process using the turntable ladder.
"They brought down 63 passengers while
RapidKL sent a rescue train and transferred 120 others back to the
station," he said, adding that the rescue operation ended at 4pm.
The injured victims were given medical
treatment at the scene before they were sent to Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
All of them are reported to be in stable
condition.
A tourist, known only as Matthew, 27, from
England, said the situation was calm in the first 15 minutes, with some
passengers chatting and laughing about the glitch.
"However, after 15 minutes, several
passengers started panicking when they realised that the train was stuck. It
was very hot inside. The train was packed, and several passengers started
crying and said they could not breathe."
Norfarzana Rokib, 17, from Kajang, said a man
then started hammering at a window and broke it to allow fresh air in.
Syarikat Prasarana Negara Berhad media
manager Azhar Ghazali said the train came to a halt after its system detected
traction control problem.
"When the problem was detected, the
train automatically lost its primary and auxiliary power supply. This was a
part of our safety procedure. When this happened, the train's air-conditioner
was also turned off."
The monorail's operations resumed at 4.30pm.
Azhar said the incident was the first which
saw a train-to-train evacuation since it started operations on Dec 31, 2003.
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