Delhi metro snag: Thousands stranded in trains & stations

NEW DELHI: It was a morning rush-hour nightmare for Metro travellers on Tuesday as an overhead cable snag on the Yellow Line left thousands stranded on both sides of the Delhi-Gurugram border for hours.

The chaos spilled on to the roads with heavy jams reported on Delhi-Gurugram roads even as cabs disappeared from the stretch, leaving commuters high and dry.
Some 5,600 passengers were stuck inside two trains for nearly two hours after power supply tripped on the Qutab Minar-Sultanpur section. They were finally rescued, in what the Metro called its biggest evacuation operation, and walked nearly a kilometre to the nearest metro station.
Tens of thousands of other passengers were stranded at the Qutab Minar station as further services to Gurugram were not available. As app-based cabs went missing due to high demand, commuters paid through their nose to travel in overcrowded auto rickshaws or took lifts on tempos and trucks .
The overhead wire snapped near the Sultanpur Metro station at 9.27am. It took DMRC four hours to fix the fault but the cascading effect on train services were felt till late in the evening. The glitch affected train services in the entire corridor and people were stuck in slow moving trains for hours.