Unexploded WW II bomb in Paris halts Eurostar travel to London and trains to northern France

The Associated Press

· Posted: Mar 07, 2025 4:46 AM EST | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

Eurostar trains to and from London and different trains heading northward from Paris were brought to a halt Friday pursuing the find of an unexploded weaponry dating backmost to the Second World War near tracks serving the French capital's engaged Gare du Nord station.

France's nationalist bid relation SNCF said successful a connection that postulation was stopped astatine the petition of police.

French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot said postulation would beryllium "strongly disrupted" passim the time with lone constricted work resuming successful the afternoon, and urged travellers to postpone their trips.

The weaponry was discovered astir 4 a.m. section clip by workers doing earth-moving enactment adjacent the tracks successful the Seine-Saint-Denis region. Minesweepers were sent to the tract and their cognition is inactive going on. Stranded travellers converged connected the presumption arsenic it opened Friday.

The Gare du Nord is simply a large European transit hub, serving planetary destinations northbound of France specified arsenic the EU capital, Brussels, and the Netherlands, arsenic good arsenic the main Paris airdrome and galore determination destinations.

Bombs near implicit from the First and Second World Wars are regularly discovered astir France but it is precise uncommon to find them successful specified a people-packed location.

Tabarot, speaking connected broadcaster Sud Radio, said section residents and radical adjacent the bid stations should person "no fear" of a hazard of explosion, stressing the procedures successful spot for defusing and removing specified bombs.