{"id":18509,"date":"2026-07-30T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/athens-metro-suspended-after-person-enters-railway-tunnel\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:13:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:13:44","slug":"athens-metro-suspended-after-person-enters-railway-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/athens-metro-suspended-after-person-enters-railway-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens Metro Suspended After Person Enters Railway Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"A\">\n<h3>A security alert at the Athens Metro ended on Thursday morning after authorities removed and arrested a person who entered a tunnel on the Red Line, causing a brief interruption to services.<\/h3>\n<p>Authorities rushed to the scene after receiving reports that an individual had entered the tunnel area. Metro operators temporarily halted train services to allow emergency crews to safely search and secure the area.<\/p>\n<p>The operation concluded shortly afterwards, with authorities removing the individual from the tunnel and restoring normal train operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Athens Urban Rail Transport company STASY S.A., the disruption affected Line 2 services for approximately six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In an announcement, STASY confirmed that the person was located and arrested at Syntagma Station. Train services resumed immediately and are operating normally.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released further details about the circumstances surrounding how the person entered the tunnel area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<\/footer><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/07\/30\/athens-metro-suspended-after-person-enters-railway-tunnel\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A security alert at the Athens Metro ended on Thursday morning after authorities removed and arrested a person who entered a tunnel on the Red Line, causing a brief interruption to services. Authorities rushed to the scene after receiving reports that an individual had entered the tunnel area. Metro operators temporarily halted train services to &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Athens Metro Suspended After Person Enters Railway Tunnel\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/athens-metro-suspended-after-person-enters-railway-tunnel\/#more-18509\" aria-label=\"Read more about Athens Metro Suspended After Person Enters Railway Tunnel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/metro.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}