Dhaka Metro rail set to resume services on Saturday

Dhaka Metro rail that was stopped in its tracks due to attacks by perpetrators amid the quota reform movement is set to go on trial in the following two days before being opened to the public on Saturday, the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) has said.

The company’s Managing Director MAN Siddique told that the operation of the train services may take a maximum of one week.

Amid quota movement on Jul 18, the DMTCL halted the urban transportation system in the evening after a police box under the footbridge at Mirpur-10 roundabout and beneath the metro rail line was set on fire. Mirpur-10 and Kazipara stations were vandalised the following day.

Metro rail officials said the attacks at Kazipara and Mirpur-10 stations left all computers at station control rooms and ticket counters vandalised and looted, and ticket vending machines and passenger gates shuttered.

The officials also said three to four ticketing computers at Pallabi station in Mirpur had been stolen during the attacks.