WWII bomb halts traffic at busy Paris train station
By AFP
March 08, 2025
PARIS: Traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station was halted on Friday after a World War II bomb was found on tracks leading to France´s busiest terminal.
The unexploded bomb was found “in the middle of the tracks” about 2.5-kms from the station overnight during maintenance work carried out in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis, the national SNCF rail company said.
The Gare du Nord station lies in the north of the French capital and is the country´s busiest train hub, hosting the Eurostar trains in addition to regional and suburban service, and seeing some 700,000 passengers daily, according to the SNCF.
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