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Cable sabotage paralyses busy Paris rail station

Cable sabotage paralyses busy Paris rail station

PARIS: A busy railway hub in Paris suffered a near-total traffic shutdown on Tuesday after vandals triggered a crippling signal malfunction by setting cables on fire.Traffic from Gare de l'Est, which serves routes to Germany and eastern France, and is a key local train commuter hub for the capital's eastern outskirts, was cut for the entire day, except for a handful of local services, operator SNCF said.Transport Minister Clement Beaune told reporters it was not certain whether operations could return to normal on Wednesday.The fire broke out at a signals point in the small hours ahead of the morning rush hour, in what was first thought to be an accident but which subsequently turned out to be arson, it said.“This was a fire started deliberately,“ a spokeswoman for SNCF told AFP.There was no immediate indication as to who the perpetrators were or what their intention was in targeting a small but crucial piece of infrastructure.Officials initially said that services could resume by mid-

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