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People had to be evacuated from their homes after a large diesel freight train caught fire in south Wales.
Dyfed-Powys Police said people were now allowed to return to their homes after the blaze on the tracks at Llangennech, near Llanelli in Carmarthenshire.
Police declared a major incident and put a cordon in place and closed roads. There are no reports of any injuries.
One Twitter user said they could smell burning fuel from "well over a mile away".
The fire was reported at about 23:20 BST on Wednesday and Supt Ross Evans said it had been declared a "major incident" due to the "initial risk of harm" to people nearby.
Image copyright Pembrokeshire HeraldPolice said it had been a "fast-moving situation".
Sup Evans added: "The policing response was large scale, with officers across the force retained on duty to ensure we had sufficient resources to carry out the evacuation swiftly, as well as the deployment of a logistics specialist to assist and advise our officers on safely moving people from their homes to the reception points.
"The evacuation no doubt caused a significant amount of disruption for those evacuated in the middle of the night and I would like to personally thank residents for their response, as well as our frontline officers who swiftly moved hundreds of residents out of their homes."
Those evacuated had been asked to meet at Bryn School and Llangennech Community Centre, police added.
British Transport Police has asked people to avoid the area.
Gary Jones, a councillor for Llangennech, said the fire "seemed to die down and then there seemed to be fresh explosions".
Image copyright @missjones1994 Image caption People have been advised to avoid the area"The height of it was incredible," he told BBC Radio Wales.
Mr Jones said about 100 people were evacuated and up to 40 went to the community hall, which has not reopened since the coronavirus lockdown.
He added: "Everyone has gone home now. The village is blocked, you can't leave the village at the moment."
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