Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from two Eurostar trains in Belgium on Friday. After the malfunctions, the sets were left in the middle of scorching heat without functional air conditioning, the local railway authority informed. TASR informs according to the report of the AFP agency. The train heading from Cologne to Paris, with approximately 400 people on board, stopped in the morning due to a technical problem of an as yet unconfirmed nature. near the city of Leuven, Belgian infrastructure manager Infrabel said.
- Hundreds of passengers were stranded in Belgium on two non-air-conditioned Eurostar trains.
“Passengers were safely evacuated, given bottles of water and then transferred to an alternate connection,” a Eurostar spokesman said. Local authorities and the Red Cross participated in the rescue operation. Three passengers were taken to a hospital in Leuven as a precaution, but according to the Belgian news agency Belga, their condition is not serious.
In the afternoon, for the same reason, the train on the line from Paris to Amsterdam also stopped. The train stopped near the town of Duffel, south of Antwerp, due to a power supply problem caused by a broken traction line. Almost all of Belgium was under a red or orange heat wave warning on Friday. Temperatures in several regions significantly exceeded 35 °C, and in the eastern part of the country they were expected to reach up to 40 °C. Eurostar has apologized to affected passengers.
