New Delhi, Sep 8 - Services on the Indraprastha-Yamuna Bank section of Delhi Metro's line III were affected for nearly six-and-half hours Tuesday as a section of signalling cable was stolen from the tracks between these stations Monday night, a Delhi Metro statement said.

'A 108 metre-long section of the signalling cable was stolen last (Monday) night, which caused disruption in Metro services from Indraprastha to Yamuna Bank Metro station (on line III - Yamuna Bank to Dwarka Sector-9) from 6 a.m. to 12:18 p.m. Monday,' a Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) statement said.

'As a result of this, trains were operated on manual mode performing single line operations from Indraprastha to Yamuna Bank Metro station. Due to manual operations, the trains were run with a frequency of 10-20 minutes in this stretch,' it added.