Passengers traveling from France to England were evacuated from a Eurotunnel train underneath the English Channel on Tuesday before being left stranded for hours
"A train has broken down in the tunnel and we are in the process of transferring customers to a separate passenger shuttle via the service tunnel, to return to our Folkestone terminal," EurotunnelEurotunnel Le Shuttle runs trains that carry passenger and freight vehicles through a tunnel between England and France.
"We got on the 3.50 pm crossing, approximately 10 minutes in the lights went out and the train stopped. We were told they needed to investigate an issue with the wheels," he said. Passengers were then evacuated through the emergency link tunnel to the service tunnel, walking for around 10 minutes until they reached another train, Harrison told PA.
A second passenger told PA that"several people were freaking out about being down in the service tunnel, it's a bit of a weird place. We were stuck down there for at least five hours.""It was hot, there was no air con, they gave out water but we didn't really know what was going on," she said."It was like a disaster movie. You were just walking into the abyss not knowing what was happening. We all had to stay under the sea in this big queue," she said.
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