Hundreds of passengers have been stuck for hours in the tunnel under the English Channel between France and Great Britain because of a train breakdown. After the alarm went off on board a shuttle train in the Eurotunnel, the passengers had to be taken through a maintenance tunnel to another car train on Tuesday evening, as a spokesman for the operating company Getlink said on Wednesday.
The shuttle was “stopped in a controlled manner” and inspected, he added. The approximately 400 passengers were taken to another train “for safety’s sake”. Photos and videos on online networks showed passengers walking through the tunnel with their belongings.
“The maintenance tunnel was scary. It was like something out of a disaster movie,” Sarah Fellows, 37, from Birmingham, told the PA news agency. One woman cried, another suffered a panic attack.