The services of metro rail remained suspended for about an hour on Saturday afternoon due to some technical glitch, said officials of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited.

The passengers suffered due to the disruptions in the services on the 20.1-kilometre-long Uttara–Motijheel route.

‘An automatic door of a metro train was not opening at Pallabi station. We suspended the services at about 3:00pm and resumed around an hour later,’ said the company official Nazmul Islam Bhuiyan.

‘When the problem was raised, the authorities stopped the trains instantly and then brought the trains at the nearest stations,’ he said.

Earlier on February 4, the services of metro rail on the 20.1-kilometre-long Uttara–Motijheel route remained suspended for about an hour due to some technical glitch.

On Feburay 14, a stray kite falling on the power cable on Wednesday afternoon kept the metro rail services on hold for about an hour.

In 2023, the services of metro rail remained suspended three times on August 7, 9 and 21 mainly due to technical glitch and operational reasons.

Currently, the metro rail trains run from 7:10am to 8:40pm except for Friday, picking passengers from all the 16 stations on the Uttara–Motijheel route.

The prime minister launched the country’s first-ever electricity-powered elevated and air-conditioned rail system on the 11.73-kilometre-long Uttara–Agargaon section on December 28, 2022.

On November 4, the prime minister inaugurated the service from Agargaon to Motijheel. The entire MRT Line 6 project on the 21.26-kilometre-long Uttara-Kamalapur route is scheduled to be inaugurated in December 2025.