Rotterdam train alert: Man held after passengers evacuated Published duration 18 September 2015

image copyright EPA image caption Police initially negotiated with the man locked in a toilet aboard the train

Dutch police have arrested a man who had locked himself inside a toilet aboard a Thalys train at Rotterdam central station, Dutch reports say.

Earlier police ordered everyone off the Paris-bound train and evacuated seven station platforms.

Train operator Thalys said police had the situation "under control" and passengers were not at risk.

Last month passengers overpowered a gunman aboard an Amsterdam-Paris Thalys train in northern France.

It is not yet clear who the arrested man is nor why he acted as he did.

One passenger tweeted that the man had jumped aboard the train just before it began leaving.