Tuesday, December 05, 2006

MRT track accident again!!!

Part 2
Thank you post
The gory pics in circulation are fake!

UPDATE: According to HWZ, the person is said to be a local indian national, was believed to be drunk (no one can confirm and we have to leave it to speculation) when he fell into the track and was sliced into 3 pieces by the impact, which explains the complexity of the clean-up operation.

A track accident occurred at 6.48am at Yishun MRT and service was disrupted until 8.15am between Sembawang and Yio Chu Kang.

SMRT personnel were quick to resume service within an hour and a half by first moving the body and keeping it below the platform gap while they put powder to prevent it from decaying as train services continued. The body was eventually removed at 9.47am and promptly sent to the mortuary via a police van.

The SMRT PR personnel kept accompanying the mediacorp reporters and cameramen around, and prevented the rest from following them too closely. :(