The World War II bomb was was found ‘in the middle of the tracks’ about 2.5 kilometres from the busy Gare du Nord Station in Paris
GUWAHATI, March 7: The recovery of an unexploded World War II bomb near railway tracks disrupted railway services at Paris’ busy Gare du Nord station today morning, Transport Express Regional (TER), the French national railway company, said.
“An unexploded bomb from the Second World War was discovered near the tracks”, TER said on ‘X’, formerly Twitter.
The unexploded bomb was found “in the middle of the tracks” about 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) from the station overnight during maintenance work carried out in the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported quoting the national SNCF rail company said.
All trains to the railway station was halted while police worked to disable the device.
As per Eurostar, Gare du Nord is Europe’s busiest rail station and serves 214 million passengers a year.
