{"id":14170,"date":"2013-06-06T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=14170"},"modified":"2013-06-06T02:40:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:40:10","slug":"moscow-metro-fire-sees-45000-people-evacuated-and-two-dozen-passengers-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=14170","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Metro fire sees 45,000 people evacuated and two dozen passengers injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/m4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14167\" alt=\"m4\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/m4.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/m4.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/m4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/m4-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A rush-hour fire in Moscow&#8217;s subway today injured dozens of people, forced the evacuation of thousands of commuters and closed parts of the network.<\/p>\n<p>The fire started after a power cable caught fire in a tunnel leading to the Okhotny Ryad station adjacent to Red Square, the Emergencies Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said more than 45 people sought medical help and seven were hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>Most of them suffered from smoke inhalation and thousands were evacuated.<br \/>\nAs firefighters were putting out the fire, authorities closed one of the subway lines that cuts through central Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses say central Moscow streets were thronged with crowds who ended up walking to work.<\/p>\n<p>The subway resumed regular service by noon Moscow time, but half an hour later officials again shut part of the line after they found a smoldering cable at another tunnel next to the Okhotny Ryad station.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow&#8217;s subway is an essential transport link, serving up to 7 million people a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rush-hour fire in Moscow&#8217;s subway today injured dozens of people, forced the evacuation of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}