About 100 people were left stranded in mid-air when a monorail train stuck at the Rand Show in Johannesburg on Monday night, emergency services said.
Spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said on Tuesday that no one was injured, but a 12-year-old girl was treated for shock and hyperventilation. ”She just panicked a bit,” he said.
Midgley said one of the trains got stuck and another bumped into the back of it.
One train was moved back to its station where the occupants were dropped off and the fire department used ladders to rescue the rest, who were stranded about 6m above the ground.
Midgley said all the passengers were rescued by about 9pm.
Rand Show spokesperson Teresa Settas said an engineer’s report was being awaited. She described the monorail as a slow-moving train around the show grounds at Nasrec.
The accident took place near Hall 5, where emergency services had their exhibit.
”They immediately jumped in and helped everyone get off,” Settas said. — Sapa