MRT service disrupted
S'poreans experience MRT service disruption once again this morning. -AsiaOne
Mon, Apr 07, 2008
AsiaOne
Singaporeans once again faced MRT service disruption as they headed for work this Monday morning, when a man was found dead on the train track at the Choa Chu Kang MRT Station.
Police received a call at 8 am that a man had fallen onto the track. The man, a Chinese in his mid-40s, was pronounced dead at 8.30 am.
A portion of the North-South line was affected. According to signs flashed at MRT stations, there was no train service from Yew Tee station to Bukit Gombak station towards Jurong East station.
Trains running on this line had to turn around.
SMRT deployed a dozen buses to the station to bring the stranded commuters to the connecting stations shortly after 8 am.
Normal train services resumed at about 8.50 am after the body of the man was removed from the track.
A shopkeeper in the station said he heard commuters saying that the man had jumped onto the track.
Singapore Civil Defence Force and Singapore Police Force personnel were seen at the scene, which has been cordoned off. Police are now investigating the case.
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