By SUNIL Sonkar

LONDON: More than 2000 passengers Saturday overnight were trapped in the undersea Channel tunnel that links Britain and France as 4 trains broke down due to the freezing weather conditions.

The angry travellers who were arriving to London on morning of Saturday said that they were left with no power, air conditioning, food or water. Some of the travelers even complained that their journeys from Brussels and Paris took 15 hours instead of just 2 hours in normal schedule.

According to Eurostar, the breakdowns took place when the high-speed trains moved in the warmer tunnel from the outside cold temperatures. Eurostar cancelled on Saturday all its services due to bad weather.

The temperatures at the French port of Calais, the French side of the tunnel, were –2°C degrees and it was also accompanied by snowfall. Paris, the French capital recorded a temperature of –4C on Saturday.

Chief executive of Eurostar. Richard Brown said, “We’re very, very sorry that they’ve had such a disrupted journey overnight… “We’ve been getting people home as quickly as we can but they have had very bad journeys.”