OPERATIONS at the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 were stalled for 30 minutes on Friday afternoon after an unidentified man managed to get inside the rail tracks by climbing on the perimeter fence’s northbound portion in front of New York Avenue, in Cubao, Quezon City.

According to the MRT control center, the unidentified man, who had no shirt and in green short pants, climbed the cyclone wire fence at around 3:00 p.m. and held on to the electric power line, which electrocuted him.

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