A power outage has halted train traffic to and from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and Utrecht until at least 11:00 p.m. Initially, no trains were running to the airport at all, but train traffic from Leiden has now resumed. The timing of this outage is especially unfortunate given the NATO summit in The Hague.

A power outage has halted train traffic to and from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, and Utrecht until at least 11:00 p.m. Initially, no trains were running to the airport at all, but train traffic from Leiden has now resumed. The timing of this outage is especially unfortunate given the NATO summit in The Hague.

The outage is caused by a fire breaking out in the power cables at around 3:45 a.m., a ProRail spokesperson told NU.nl. Repairs will take “a large part of the day,” at least the entire morning. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, so ProRail could not yet say whether it was sabotage.

The spokesperson called the failure “very unfortunate,” given the NATO summit. Many important highways in the Randstad will be closed on Tuesday for security reasons while world leaders travel from Schiphol Airport to The Hague, so reaching the airport by road will be even more difficult than usual.