Around 45 passengers suffered minor injuries, possibly due to smoke inhalation, local police told AFP.
About 200 passengers were evacuated from a train on Wednesday night after it caught fire while passing through an underground tunnel, authorities said.
Around 45 passengers suffered minor injuries, possibly due to smoke inhalation, local police told AFP.
The train bound for Hamburg (Germany) and Amsterdam (Netherlands) was passing through a tunnel near the city of Innsbruck in the Austrian Alps last night when an overhead power cable snapped, a spokesman for ÖBB, the Austrian railway company, told AFP.
Apart from passengers, the train was carrying vehicles and one caught fire due to the falling of the cut cable, the spokesman explained.
“The fire was extinguished at 22:19 [τοπική ώρα· 23:19 ώρα Ελλάδας] and the hasty evacuation of passengers ended at 23:40 [00:40]”, the spokesperson added.
The ÖBB train left Vienna last Wednesday night and was expected in Amsterdam in the morning.
Source :Skai
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