Eurostar passengers face major delays after person fatally struck by train in France | World | News

Passengers in Eurostar were greeted with seven hours of delay after a death on the runway in France. “Because of the two people hit by the trains near Lille Europe, there are delays and cancellations in our services all evening,” the operator said in a statement about the X and added the following by adding the following, iz We apologize to everyone affected and recommend you to change your journey for a different travel date. ”

The services between London St Pancras and Paris Gare Du Nord Ground stopped immediately after 15:00. According to Telegraph, a train connected to a Paris remaining at 14:00 (because it arrived before 18:00) was still reported to crawl in Northern France at 9.45.

A few subsequent departures, including 4.01: 0, 6.01pm and 8.01:00 services, were explicitly canceled.

Social media is rapidly full of complaints.

Millie Race wrote, “I have been in 9032 for seven hours and we’re still not in Paris,” he wrote. “Will we get full compensation?”

Another traveler, who served as James, said: “Full ticket repayment will be needed for compensation. Five hours on board and now a three -hour delay.”

Passengers who never left the platforms went a little better.

Naomi Sanger, waiting for 4.31 from Paris, said to other customers that the crowds were “total jokes, food and drinks end, Air-Con closed, coffee machine broken and even down the card machine”.

The second death that was shot on the Eurostar route after a week after a separate incident in France last Wednesday.