Singapore's train service delayed as student's leg got stuck

Singapore's train service was delayed again on Wednesday morning, after a student's leg got stuck between the train and platform.

A photo showing a female student sitting on the platform, with her left leg stuck between the train and platform at North East Line's Hougang station were seen on Singapore's social media in the morning. The incident, which happened at around 7:50 a.m., led to service delay during the morning rush hour.

Until 9 a.m., there were still large crowds of commuters at the line, Channel NewsAsia reported.

This follows a series of breakdown of train services over the last month. Just two days earlier, services along the Bukit Panjang LRT was suspended for 23 hours due to power trip and fire. It was not until 4:40 p.m. on Tuesday did train services of both directions resumed, Singapore's train operator SMRT said in a statement.

SMRT had earlier pledged to do better on rail network reliability last week, after over five breakdowns were reported over the last month.

Singapore's Land Transport Authority urged SMRT "must continue to put maximum effort and resources into this," saying that such frequent service disruptions were "unacceptable." Endi