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Tunnel collapse on Moscow Metro

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    A section of tunnel has collapsed on a Moscow metro train, Russian emergency services have reported.

    The incident occurred on a section of subway between Sokol and Voikovskaya stations in north-west Moscow, an Emergency Ministry spokesman said.

    The collapse occurred at 1437 local time (1137 GMT) on a train travelling towards the city centre, officials said.

    A concrete slab from the tunnel's supporting structure is thought to have pierced the third carriage of the train. Some reports say the collapse caused a fire in the train.

    Preliminary reports say the collapse was caused by workers at street level driving a pillar into the ground to set up an advertising billboard.
    The workers had not been properly authorised to do the job, the city's public prosecutor's department said.

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    SOURCE: BBC
     
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