Paris’ Gare du Nord, Europe’s busiest train station, ground to a halt on Friday while an unexploded World War Two bomb was defused, causing the cancellation of all Eurostar trains for the day and huge disruptions to nearby traffic.
Railway workers found the 500 kilogram (1,100 lb) device 2 metres underground at around 0230 GMT in Saint-Denis, a northern Parisian suburb, during construction work on a bridge.
Police say the area is known to contain “vestiges” of the war. Although the bomb was found 2.5 km (1.6 miles) out from the station, it was located under the tracks, one of the network’s train lines wrote in a post on X.
