2 injured in LRT train accident

MANILA, Philippines – The emergency brake caused smoke to billow into a Light Rail Transit (LRT) train when it broke down near UN Avenue Station Monday morning, causing panic and injuring two passengers, an LRT Authority (LRTA) spokesman told Radyo Inquirer in an interview.

Lawyer Hernando Cabrera, spokesman of the LRTA told Radyo Inquirer that the train’s passengers were injured when a stampede broke out after the windows were smashed due to the smoke that wafted into the last coach of the train at around 8:53 a.m.

The report said that the injured were rushed to a clinic at the LRT Central Station.

Cabrera said that the LRT resumed its operations at around 8:58 a.m. (report from Inquirer.net/DZIQ-Radyo Inquirer)