Eurostar services halted after WW2 bomb found near Gare du Nord in Paris
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.
The French transport minister, Philippe Tabarot, told French radio before heading to the scene that teams were “massively mobilised” to deal with the device. He said: “There’s nothing to be afraid of, but there are procedures we have to respect.”
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Tabarot said the teams were working as fast as possible within a large security perimeter, adding there would likely be some disruption all day but that he hoped some trains could resume in the afternoon.