On the Red Line of the Moscow Metro, the section from Park Culture to Sokolniki is closed. According to preliminary data, a train car derailed

In Moscow, traffic stopped on the Sokolnicheskaya (red) metro line between Park Culture and Sokolniki stations.

The Moscow Ministry of Transport initially reported that there was no traffic between the Park Culture and Rokossovsky Boulevard stations. After that – traffic from Sokolniki to Rokossovsky Street has been restored, but the remaining part of the line remains closed.

The Transport Department said the cause was a technical malfunction in one of the trains on part of the line. It is claimed that the safety of the passengers was not in danger; Metro employees “helped to leave the stopped train in an orderly manner and go to the station.”

Telegram channel “Beware of the news” He writesAccording to preliminary information, one of the train cars that stopped in the tunnel derailed. According to eyewitnesses, the train left Komsomolskaya station towards Krasnoselskaya. TASS, citing operational services, wrote that the train’s stop may have occurred due to the car derailing.

Passengers They say About smoke at Krasnye Vorota station and in one of the cars on Komsomolskaya.