Traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station has been halted after a second world war bomb was found on tracks leading to France’s busiest terminal, officials said.
The unexploded bomb was found in the middle of the tracks overnight during maintenance work carried out in the suburb of Saint Denis, the national SNCF rail company said.
The bomb dated from the second world war, the RER B suburban train line wrote in a post on X.
All traffic to the station, which hosts Eurostar trains from London as well as high-speed and local services, was closed as Paris police worked to disable the device.
The Gare du Nord lies in the north of Paris and is the country’s busiest rail terminal, serving an estimated 700,000 people each day, according to the SNCF.
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