Train strike starts in Belgium
October 9, 2015Advertisement
The rail strike began at 10 p.m. (2000 UTC) on Thursday, with some disruption earlier, the Belgian rail firm SNCB announced. Eurostar trains from London to Brussels on Friday will instead stop at Lille in northern France, with all Thalys train services connecting Brussels to Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne canceled until late on Friday.
A rail strike last year had disrupted links, while another one in 2012 disrupted passenger service and one in 2010 disrupted international travel.
On Wednesday, tens of thousands of protesters had demonstrated in Brussels against Prime Minister Charles Michel's austerity measures.
mkg/jr (AFP, dpa)