“For a short period, there is no traffic between the Savelovskaya and Altufevo stations. This is necessary to remove the defective composition. Soon we will go! ”- said in a message on Twitter of the Moscow metro.

Earlier, the deputy mayor, head of the Moscow transport complex, Maxim Liksutov, said that a special expert commission was investigating the causes of the incident on the Solntsevskaya line of the Moscow metro.

According to Liksutov, evacuation of 1041 passengers from three subway trains took more than three hours.