Horror message on Wednesday evening in Tyrol! A car caught fire on a car train that was just hurtling through a tunnel near Fritzens. About 200 people were trapped in the Nightjet, which was en route from Innsbruck to Hamburg or Amsterdam.
About 20 fire brigades from the immediate vicinity went to the Terfentunnel. “The evacuation is currently underway,” ÖBB spokesman Christoph Gasser-Mair told “Krone”. According to initial information, the vehicle caught fire in the train due to damage to the overhead wires.
Firefighting operations continued on Wednesday evening. The fire is under control, the fire service said. The exact cause of the fire is still unclear.
25 injured
According to the police, it has been established that a Nightjet with 200 passengers was in the tunnel at the time the fire broke out. The people were saved from the fire. According to reports, 25 people were slightly injured. It is a tunnel of the new Unterinntalbahn near Fritzens (Innsbruck-Land district).
Source: Krone
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