After a train collapse, people were trapped in the world’s longest underwater tunnel for nearly five hours.
After a train collapse in the Eurotunnel, hundreds of passengers had to resist for almost five hours. A car train from Calais, France, en route to Folkestone, UK, failed on Tuesday afternoon, PA news agency reported.
The Eurotunnel is the longest undersea tunnel in the world. Of the 50 kilometers, 37 kilometers run completely under the English Channel between France and Great Britain.
“We’ve just entered the abyss”
A video on social media showed people, some with luggage and dogs, apparently walking through a maintenance tunnel. A replacement train, which normally carries buses, ended up taking travelers to the destination terminal in Folkestone, according to the report.
“The maintenance tunnel was scary. It looked like something out of a disaster movie,” a 37-year-old passenger told PA. “We just walked into the abyss not knowing what was going to happen. We all had to wait in this long line at the bottom of the sea.” One woman cried, another had a panic attack.
Operations returned to normal
Connections were lost because of the incident. The train operator asked passengers who wanted to travel from Calais to Folkestone not to come to the terminal until Wednesday morning. Operations returned to normal on Wednesday morning, according to Eurotunnel.
(APA/dpa)