Paris Gare du Nord Train Services Halted After WWII Bomb Discovery

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WWII bomb defusal operation causes hours of travel delays in Paris

Hours of travel delays and chaos ensues after an unexploded WWII bomb was discovered in France’s busiest train station in the capital, Paris.

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WWII Bomb Found Near Paris Train Station

Paris commuters got a history lesson nobody asked for when an unexploded WWII bomb turned up. Train services went off-track while experts carefully defused the antique explosive.

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‘Really Huge’ Unexploded WWII Bomb Found Outside Paris Train Station

There were long delays today at Gare du Nord—a train station in Paris that is one of the busiest on earth. The delays were a little bit more than the usual late train, as a World War II-era bomb was found in Saint-Denis, a suburb just north of the station. The discovery was made when workers were conducting routine landscaping work at a bridge renovation site. The crew is lucky to not have triggered a detonation since a heavy earthmoving machine…

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The railway traffic resumed progressively after being completely interrupted on Friday at the station of the North of Paris, the busiest in France, after the discovery of a bomb of the Second World War on the periphery of the capital.

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WWII bomb discovered in Paris causes travel chaos, Eurostar shutdown

PARIS — The disposal of what Paris police called an "excessively dangerous" unexploded World War II bomb caused hours of transportation chaos Friday on rail and road networks in the French capital, including the suspension of high-speed train links with London and Brussels.Having moved the bomb into a hole, disposal experts managed to unscrew and then destroy its fuse, "like you see in the movies," said Christophe Pezron, who heads the Paris pol…

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Paris train station grinds to a halt over WWII bomb

Train services will gradually resume after the disposal operation of an unexploded World War II bomb caused transportation...