Metro rail services on the entire Uttara-Motijheel route in the capital resumed on Thursday morning.
Earlier the services were temporarily suspended on the Shahbagh-Agargaon section on Wednesday night due to jerking at the Farmgate point.
Md Ahsan Ullah Sharifi, deputy project director for public relations of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited, the implementing agency of the metro rail system, said that metro trains started to run on normal schedule since Thursday morning.
According to the DMTCL officials, the suspension on Wednesday night was due to issues related to the operations of trains near the location where recently a bearing pad had fallen.
At about 9:15pm jerking between the Farmgate and Agargaon sections led to the suspension, they said.
However, trains on the Agargaon-Uttara and Motijheel-Shahbagh sections ran as per usual schedule last night, they added.
Earlier this week, metro rail services remained halted for 23 hours on the Shahbagh-Bijoy Sarani section following a fatal incident involving a pedestrian who was struck by a bearing pad that had fallen from a metro pier on October 26. Services resumed on the Uttara-Agargaon section after two and a half hours, and on the Motijheel-Shahbagh section after seven hours.
The location where the bearing pad fell on October 26, Pier 433, is near the entrance of the Farmgate metro station.
This incident follows a similar occurrence in 2024, when a bearing pad fell from Pier 430.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, DMTCL reassured passengers about the safety of its services.