PARIS - A French high speed TGV train caught fire Friday afternoon near Lyon en route from Marseille to Paris, BFMTV reported Friday evening.
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Rescue workers search the wreckage of a test TGV train that derailed and crashed in a canal outside Eckwersheim near Strasbourg, eastern France, November 14, 2015.??[Photo/Agencies] |
The locomotive of the TGV with about 800 people on board caught fire Friday at Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in Isere for an unknown reason, causing significant delays on the Paris-Marseille line, said BFMTV.
All of the passengers on the train were evacuated and no injuries were reported, said a spokesman of SNCF in Rhone-Alpes, cited by BFMTV.
According to him, the locomotive of the TGV began to emit smoke and then caught fire late Friday afternoon.
About 80 firefighters are on site to control the fire.
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