Fire: The blaze broke out on Sunday night along the railway track believed to be the location of the gold train
Fire has destroyed the suspected location of the mystery Nazi gold train just days after it was 'found' in Poland.
The blaze is the latest twist in the tale of the train that is rumoured to be loaded with gold and gems from the Second World War.
Scores of treasure hunters armed with metal detectors swarmed the city of Walbrzych and its surrounding hills last week after two men informed authorities they had found the Nazi train .
But a huge blaze broke out along an embankment widely considered the location of the train, burning 219 square yards of forest and bush.
Despite the curious timing of the fire amid the treasure hunt, Poland's fire brigade say they are almost certain it was not arson.
The 100m-long train is believed to be buried underneath a 4km stretch of railway track on the Wroclaw-Walbrzych line.
The provincial governor, Tomasz Smolarz, said that police, city and railway guards were now patrolling the area and blocking treasure hunters to prevent any accidents with trains running on the tracks.
Authorities said numerous previous reports of a find have only yielded rusty pieces of metal.
Meanwhile those on the hunt for the train's loot in the past claim they have encountered mysterious armed men who have warned them to stop looking.
Tadeusz Slowikowski, a local historian who has dedicated himself to finding the train, told the MailOnline that in 2003 three armed men told him to stop searching, and that his dog had been poisoned. He also claimed his phone was still monitored.
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Local news reports said the train in question went missing in 1945, packed with loot from the-then eastern German city of Breslau, now called Wroclaw and part of Poland, as the Red Army closed in at the end of World War Two.
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