The Brussels fire brigade was called out mid-afternoon on Wednesday for a smoke development at the Gare du Midi in Saint-Gilles. Smoke was billowing from underneath a metro train, and the station was subsequently evacuated by the fire brigade. The fire has now been extinguished.
“The fire was smouldering under a carriage of the train,” said Walter Derieuw, spokesman for the Brussels fire brigade. “We made a hole in the floor of the car to put it out,” he said. The cause is thought to be accidental.
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Separately, a person died after being hit by a metro train in the Yser metro station in Brussels late Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Police and STIB, the region's public transport operator, stated. The exact circumstances of the collision are being investigated.
The collision was caused by a train that hit a person in the Yser metro station.
Due to the incident, metro line 2 traffic was interrupted between the Simonis and Elisabeth stops.
