PARIS — According to the Associated Press, a high-speed Thalys train connecting Paris to Brussels was halted Wednesday after authorities received a report that a bomb had been placed on board, the French rail authority said.
Several hundred passengers were safely evacuated from the train after it came to an emergency stop in the northern Oise region, and a team of bomb experts was dispatched to the scene, rail authority SNCF said.
The bomb scare occurred shortly after 5 p.m. (1600 GMT), when an anonymous caller telephoned Paris police and said there was a bomb inside the train, SNCF said.
It was not immediately known whether any explosive device was on the train. The train had left Paris at 4:45 p.m. (1545 GMT), headed for the Belgian capital.