沙特高鐵車站發(fā)生火災，至少5人受傷

沙特高鐵車站發(fā)生火災，至少5人受傷

A fire broke out in the Haramain high-speed rail station in Saudi Arabia's coastal city of Jeddah, injuring at least five people, authorities said on Sunday.

沙特官方周日表示，沙特沿海城市吉達的哈拉曼高鐵車站發(fā)生火災，造成至少5人受傷。

The fire, which caused plumes of black smoke to rise from the roof of the station after fire erupted at 12:35 p.m. (0935 GMT), was brought under control about 12 hours later, the civil defense service said.

據英國民防署表示，火災發(fā)生在當地時間12小時35分(格林威治時間9時35分)，大約12小時后火勢得到控制。

A cooling process was under way, it said. Civil defense fought the fire with air support, al-Ekhbariya state television footage showed.

該公司表示，冷卻過程正在進行中。阿爾-埃赫巴里亞國家電視臺的畫面顯示，民防部門在空中支援下撲滅了大火。

Five people were transported to hospital with injuries, the official Twitter account of the Mecca region reported. It said 16 medical teams were at the scene.

麥加地區(qū)官方推特賬號報道稱，有5人受傷被送往醫(yī)院。報道稱有16支醫(yī)療隊在現場。

Al-Ekhbariya said four people were treated on site and traffic on the railway line had been suspended until further notice for safety reasons.

Al-Ekhbariya說，有4人在現場接受治療，出于安全原因，鐵路交通已經暫停，等待進一步通知。

The 450-km Haramain Railway linking the two holiest cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina, with the Red Sea city of Jeddah, was opened in 2018 and cost 7.3 billion U.S. dollars.

全長450公里的哈拉曼鐵路連接伊斯蘭教最神圣的兩個城市麥加和麥地那，與紅海城市吉達，于2018年開通，耗資73億美元。

The station is part of efforts to boost tourism revenue as the country seeks to shed its dependence on oil exports.

隨著中國尋求擺脫對石油出口的依賴，該站是提高旅游收入的舉措之一。