Traffic at the Paris Gare du Nord train station has been halted after a World War II bomb was found on the tracks leading to France’s busiest terminal, officials say.
The unexploded bomb was found “in the middle of the tracks” overnight during maintenance work carried out in the area of the Saint Denis suburb, the national SNCF rail company says.
The bomb is “dated to the Second World War,” the RER B suburban train writes in a post on X.
All traffic to the train station, which hosts Eurostar trains as well as high-speed and local services, is closed as Paris police work to disable the device.
The Gare du Nord train station 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.
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