Trains to and from Paris disrupted by unexploded World War Two bomb

STORY: :: The find of an unexploded World War Two-era weaponry disrupts trains to and from Paris' Gare du Nord

:: March 7, 2025

"We said to ourselves ‘We’ve had truly atrocious luck here!’. It’s a beauteous weird situation.”

:: Paris, France

:: London, England

"The constituent I was making is however bash you observe abruptly aft each these years you know, connected the tracks even, with each the trains that went through. It seems unusual to me, the full thing. But until we cognize further, thing you tin bash but wait."

The disruption is affecting section metro lines, commuter rails and nationalist and planetary trains, including Eurostar services.

Departure boards astatine London's St Pancras International bid presumption showed aggregate trains heading to Paris canceled, leaving dozens of passengers stranded.

The weaponry was recovered 1.55 miles (2.5 km) from Paris Gare du Nord bid station, successful the mediate of the bid tracks, the H enactment said. It said bid postulation would stay disrupted until the de-mining cognition was completed.

Paris constabulary said the weaponry had been discovered astatine 3:30 a.m. (0230 GMT) successful Saint-Denis, a bluish Parisian suburb, during operation work.