By Prensa Latina,
Paris : The fire in the European Tunnel located under the English Channel was controlled Friday but the traffic will remain held up while necessary security measures are taken to reestablish the service.
According to Eurostar Company, in charge of the corridor, traffic resumption could not be exactly estimated although passenger flow was not affected, declared Home Ministry Michelle Alliot-Marie.
The fire began Thursday afternoon, 6.8 miles from the French coast, in a truck moved by a train coming from the United Kingdom, causing the closing of both routes.
The 32 drivers of cars moved in the train and the workers of the tunnel were immediately evacuated.
Six of them were sent to hospitals because of slight intoxication provoked by smoke.
This is not the first fire in the Eurotunnel that was inaugurated in 1994 joining France and Great Britain.