The roof of the tunnel under construction in Kermanshah Metro collapsed.
Following the collapse of the roof of the Kermanshah Metro tunnel under construction on Thursday evening, July 6, vehicle traffic was banned on the street where the project is being implemented.
The IRGC's Khatam al-Anbiya headquarters is participating in the construction of this metro.
According to ISNA news agency, during a visit to the site of the tunnel collapse, Kermanshah Governor Bahman Amiri-Moghaddam ordered that the street where the metro line is being built be closed until the "soil is stabilized, the tunnel is reinforced, and the tunnel is strengthened."
No report has been published yet about possible casualties and financial losses from the Kermanshah metro tunnel collapse.
The implementation plan for the construction of Line 1 of the Kermanshah Metro began in late 2011 and was supposed to be operational within 42 months, but due to various government policies, including the need to build a monorail instead of a metro during the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad administration, the project faced several stops.
According to the then governor of Kermanshah, the completion of the first phase of the Kermanshah urban train project, with a budget of 750 billion Tomans, was to be completed by the end of 2020, with the participation of the Budget Planning Organization and Bank Sepah.
The then mayor of Kermanshah also announced in 2017 that a 100 billion toman contract had been signed between the provincial municipality and the Khatam al-Anbia headquarters for the implementation of the second phase of the province's metro tunnel.
This is not the first time that a subway tunnel under construction in Iran has collapsed. Examples include the subsidence of the ground and the creation of a three-meter-deep pit on Tehran's Prophet Street in 2016, the collapse of a tunnel on Tehran's 17th Shahrivar Street in November 2020, which resulted in the death of a worker, and the collapse of the Kianshahr subway tunnel in Tehran in 2016, which resulted in the death of four people and the injury of six people.
Source: Radio Farda
