OREANDA-NEWS   A fire broke out in the Barcelona metro, more than 130 people suffered from smoke inhalation. This was reported by the Ara publication.

"I was in a subway car when the train suddenly stopped in a tunnel. I smelled smoke, and we saw that the smoke was starting to enter the carriage," said one of the passengers.

It is noted that the ambulance service provided assistance to 136 people, 39 of whom were taken to various nearby hospitals in a state of mild or moderate severity. The cause of the fire is called the collapse and ignition of the tunnel lining.

Earlier it became known that a wildfire that has already engulfed 14,000 hectares in southwestern France has become the most devastating for the country in the last 50 years. According to media reports, the area of the current fire has already exceeded the area of Paris.