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Berlin Zoo train station evacuated over large amounts of smoke Berlin Zoo train station evacuated over large amounts of smoke
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Railway traffic was halted at Berlin's Zoo train station on Sunday due to a large amount of smoke, with at least one person injured, German police and fire officials said on Twitter. Long-distance rail traffic resumed at the busy Berlin Zoo train station on Sunday after firefighters extinguished a fire that had caused large amounts of smoke, though local railway traffic remained halted, German federal police said on Twitter.
The cause of the smoke was not immediately clear. Fifteen people were rescued from the smoke-filled platform, and one was being treated for light injuries, a fire department spokesman told broadcaster N24.
German media showed smoke billowing from the large station, which is just steps from the site of the December 2016 Christmas market attack. The spokesman said he had no details on the cause of the fire.
The entire station, which is also home to multiple shops, fast food restaurants and public transportation lines, had been evacuated, a spokeswoman for railway operator Deutsche Bahn told Reuters. Germany remains on high alert for possible attacks by militant Islamists a year after a failed Tunisian asylum seeker killed 12 people in an attack on a Berlin Christmas market located a short distance from the Zoo train station.
The Berlin fire department said on Twitter that 15 people had been rescued from a smoke-filled platform and one person had been injured. German media earlier showed smoke billowing from the large station, which also houses numerous shops and fast food restaurants as well as public transportation lines.
German federal police said one incoming tram with 250 people on board had been moved back to the previous Tiergarten station. The entire station was evacuated for some time, a spokeswoman for railway operator Deutsche Bahn told Reuters.
Police and fire officials were on site, police said. Reuters
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