A train of the British and French Underwater Tunnel broke down, and hundreds of passengers were trapped in the bottom of the sea for 5 hours

Polar News reporter Manda

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On the afternoon of August 23, British time, a train from France and Fox Tong from France to Britain was anchored when wearing the underwater tunnel under the British Strait. Hundreds of passengers were trapped in trains. A cargo train. Passengers were trapped on the bottom of the sea for nearly 5 hours, and some people described "like a disaster movie."

According to the British "Daily Mail" and other media reports on the evening of August 23, at 3:50 pm on the same day, a train from France and British Foxone was anchored when it crossed the underwater tunnel through the British Strait. Hundreds of passengers on the train were trapped for a few hours, and they were guided by the train, and then traveled through the spare tunnel next to them to transfer to a freight train.

The video shot by netizens showed that many passengers dragged their luggage and took the dogs to shuttle in the underwater tunnel.

Picture source: "Daily Mail"

At the same time, the passengers in France and the passengers here were told that please take the bus after 6 am on the 24th. A spokesman for the European Tunnel Corporation said that a train was in trouble in the tunnel. They were transferring passengers to another car through service tunnels and returned to the terminal at Foxone.

Passenger Michael Harrison from Kent County, England said that they passed through the tunnel at 3:50 pm. After about 10 minutes, the lights were destroyed, and the train stopped. Passengers were told that the staff needs to investigate the problem of the wheels.

The staff spent about an hour and a half for investigation, but it didn't seem to find any problems. After that, the train departed for another five minutes, and the train broke down again. The passengers waited in the car for a few hours and were finally evacuated to another train.

Harrison said they evacuated from the train and passed the emergency channel to the standby channel next to them. Hundreds of passengers walked on the tunnel for about 10 minutes and came to another train. They were then transported to Fox Tong in the UK.

Another evacuated passenger said that several passengers were scared when they crossed the tunnel, and they were trapped in the tunnel for at least 5 hours. After hundreds of passengers arrived in Fox Tong, everyone had been eating for five or six hours or longer. As a result, the station had no things that everyone wanted. The big team in the door of Hamburg was lined up.

The 43 -year -old Kate Swatt was from Sali County, England. She returned from a French family with her husband and two children. She said: "It took only 35 minutes from Canada to Fox Tong. Hours."

The 37 -year -old Sarah Feros was from Birmingham, England. She said that after crossing the spare tunnel, she waited for another 40 minutes to get on the evacuation train. "The tunnel is too terrible. Walking inside is like a disaster movie. We have to line up a long team, staying on the bottom of the sea, and one lady is crying, and the other lady is scared." She said.

Jimu Journalists learned that similar accidents in the British -French Underwater Tunnel have not happened for the first time.

In July 2014, a row of trains from the United Kingdom to France had a power failure, causing nearly 400 passengers to be trapped tunnels, connecting the "European Star" transnational trains between the United Kingdom and the European continent. The passengers were forced to get out of the car, boarded another train along the tunnel, and then sent to France to add it.

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