Train evacuated in France over bag of stinky meat | Inquirer News

Train evacuated in France over bag of stinky meat

/ 11:14 AM October 03, 2015

DIJON, France—A suspicious gas-like stench aboard a high-speed train led to the evacuation Friday of some 250 people in France before bio-chemical experts traced it to a package of stinky fermenting meat in a passenger’s bag.

Local government officials in the Burgundy region of central France said passengers aboard the train from Brussels and heading to the southern city of Marseille said passengers had raised the alarm over “a suspicious gas smell.”

The TGV train was stopped and while one carriage went on to Marseille, another containing some 250 passengers was evacuated, said a spokesman for the SNCF rail operator.

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Specialist firemen with the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Risk (NRBC) unit were dispatched to search the train.

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It was traced to a passenger’s luggage containing several items of fermented food, notably a “very smelly package of meat,” said the spokesman.

After two and a half hours passengers were allowed back on the train.

 

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