A chicken has caused chaos on a subway line, halting trains and forcing the electricity to be cut off after getting loose on the tracks.
The bird was spotted on Mexico City’s subway system before workers including maintenance men and civil defence officers in hard hats, grabbed brooms, bin bags and gloves to try and rescue it.
The chicken eluded several attempts to capture it before one worker tossed his coat over the bird so the trains could get up and running again.
Mexico City’s subway system has been plagued by a series of incidents that city officials had claimed were sabotage.
Earlier this year a woman was arrested, but later released, after bits of a plastic washing machine agitator fell on the subway tracks at another station.
It was later determined the incident was accidental.
Accidents on the subway have been a recurrent embarrassment for Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, who is considered the most likely candidate of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party to succeed him in the 2024 presidential election.
In May 2021, an elevated section of the subway system collapsed, killing 26 people and injuring nearly 100.
An investigation blamed deficiencies in the line’s construction, and 10 former officials have been charged with homicide, injury and damage to property, though none have been jailed.
Like the president, Sheinbaum often ascribes setbacks to a conservative conspiracy against her.
Earlier this year, López Obrador ordered 6,000 National Guard agents to patrol subway platforms across the city.
