Metro rail services suspended for 15 minutes after balloon gets stuck on wire
Staff Reporter Published: 14 April 2026, 03:33 PM
| Updated: 14 April 2026, 03:44 PM
Passengers wait for train at a metro rail station. – Jago News Photo
Metro rail services were suspended for around 15 minutes on Tuesday afternoon, April 14, after a gas balloon became tangled in the electric wire in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar.
Witnesses said train operations were halted from 12:55 pm to 1:10 pm. Later, the services resumed after the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) fixed the flaw.
"Train movement was halted for about 15 minutes due to a balloon, and it was fixed soon. People are not aware that causes suffering to commuters," DMTCL director AKM Khairul Alam told Jago News.
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