The fires, reported before dawn on Friday, paralysed train travel into Paris for around 800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
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00:00Technicians from France's high-speed railway network continued to repair fire damage caused
00:07by arsonists hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics.
00:12Targeting remote locations far from the capital, the apparently coordinated attack sought to
00:17cut off rail routes into the city from all directions.
00:21The fires were predominantly set in pipes containing critical signalling cables for
00:26the system known as the TGV.
00:29Railway operator SNCF said security across the network had been stepped up in response.
00:35The fires, reported before dawn on Friday, paralyzed train travel into Paris for around
00:40800,000 people across Europe, including athletes heading to the opening ceremony of the Olympic
00:46Games.
00:47SNCF said in a statement that there had been a gradual improvement to services, but there
00:51would still be disruptions on some lines.
00:54The CEO of SNCF said an investigation is underway to find what he called the irresponsible
01:00people behind the attacks.