Malaysian authorities had been on Tuesday investigating a collision between metro trains in Kuala Lumpur that injured greater than 200 individuals, as dramatic accounts emerged of the crash. A packed practice collided with one other that was empty and heading in the wrong way at round 8:45 pm (1245 GMT) Monday in an underground tunnel near the landmark Petronas Twin Towers.
Passengers had been left battered and bruised after being thrown throughout carriages in the course of the crash, with many evacuated on stretchers. Most suffered minor accidents however 64 had been taken to hospital and 6 had been in important situation Tuesday, authorities mentioned.
One passenger, Lim Mahfudz, described the second the trains collided. “This resulted in all seated passengers being thrown… and standing passengers being thrown,” he wrote on Twitter, adding people were injured as glass flew around the carriage.
It was a “real nightmare”, he mentioned. “The influence was so robust that I suffered accidents to my head, left leg and chest,” another passenger, Afiq Luqman Mohd Baharudin, told official news agency Bernama.
Shaken passengers had to be evacuated by emergency workers from the tunnel and brought up to the surface. The empty train had a driver at the controls and was being tested after repairs, authorities said, while the full train was on autopilot.
Transport Minister Wee Ka Siong said that initial investigations suggested human error was to blame and that the driver had driven the empty train in the wrong direction. “This caused the (head-on) collision,” he mentioned.
The accident occurred near a station beneath the Twin Towers — one of many busiest on the community. The affected line resumed companies early Tuesday. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has described the crash as “critical” and urged authorities and the train operator to “conduct an in-depth probe”.
The accident was the worst on the metro system because it started operations about 25 years in the past, though there have been much less critical incidents. In 2008, 4 passengers suffered minor accidents when two trains collided.
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