Hundreds of commuters and travelers were stranded at city metro stations in Taiwan's southern city of Kaohsiung on Sunday. The incident happened after a conductor rail malfunction caused service to shut down for 11 hours at nine stations along one of the city's three lines.
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00:00Commuters had a tough time getting around Kaohsiung on Sunday, as the southern city's
00:04metro system experienced its worst mass outage in 16 years of operation.
00:10Service was suspended at nine stations due to a malfunction in the metro's conductor
00:14rail that provides electrical current to propel the trains.
00:17At least 200 passengers were rushed off four affected trains.
00:21Hundreds more commuters and travelers waited 11 hours for the service to return later that evening.