{"id":24169,"date":"2026-06-26T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/24169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:21:09","slug":"two-eurostar-trains-evacuated-during-belgium-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/24169\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Eurostar trains evacuated during Belgium heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from two Eurostar trains Friday in Belgium after breakdowns left them without air conditioning in the midst of a sweltering heatwave, the country\u2019s rail agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A train from Cologne to Paris carrying about 400 people ground to a halt near the city of Leuven in the morning due to a technical issue of yet unconfirmed nature, Belgium\u2019s Infrabel told AFP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe passengers were evacuated safely\u201d and provided with bottles of water, before being transferred onto a replacement service, a Eurostar spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local authorities and the Red Cross aided the operations, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three passengers were taken to a hospital in Leuven as a precaution, but their condition was not considered serious, Belgium\u2019s Belga news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then in the afternoon a train running on the Paris to Amsterdam line similarly came to a stop near the town of Duffel, south of Antwerp, due to a power supply problem caused by a broken overhead line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost all of Belgium was under red or orange heatwave alerts Friday, with temperatures well exceeding 35 C in several regions and set to reach 40 C in some parts of the country\u2019s east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eurostar apologised to the affected passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of passengers were evacuated from two Eurostar trains Friday in Belgium after breakdowns left them without air&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,1608,5523],"class_list":["post-24169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-international","tag-mna"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116817801154645423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}