A train was on its way from Innsbruck to Germany when suddenly a fire broke out. Rescue workers evacuated around 150 people.
33 of them were slightly injured and taken to hospitals with suspected smoke poisoning. An overhead line damage had triggered the fire in the tunnel, according to the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) The cause of the fire has apparently already been found, the ÖBB said in a statement on Thursday night. The train had been on itsway to Hamburg and Amsterdam.