French police secure the area close to the site where an unexploded bomb was discovered near Paris Gare du Nord train station. Photo: Reuters
French police secure the area close to the site where an unexploded bomb was discovered near Paris Gare du Nord train station. Photo: Reuters
Makini Brice
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Paris’s Gare du Nord, Europe’s busiest train station, ground to a halt yesterday while an unexploded World War II bomb was defused, causing the cancellation of all Eurostar trains for the day and huge disruptions to nearby traffic.
Railway workers found the 500kg device in the early hours of yesterday, two metres underground in Saint-Denis, a northern Parisian suburb, during construction work on a bridge.