<br /> <p>Some 3,000 metro passengers in Paris were stranded on sweltering trains on July 31, some for up to two hours, after a power cut on the city’s central Line 1.</p><p>Le Figaro cited police</a> as saying 3,000 people had to be evacuated from the trains after the breakdown at around 8 pm. Traffic on the busy line, heavily used by tourists, did not resume until after 11 pm, the Local said.</a></p><p>The local transport authority, RATP, said some 200 personnel were deployed into tunnels to evacuate passengers.</p><p>One Twitter user who had been documenting the scene on her train, said the passengers began to evacuate before any RATP staff arrived. Credit: Nico Pollux via Storyful</p><br />
