WW2 bomb defused on rail tracks near Paris after day of transport chaos
by Angelique Chrisafis in Paris, Mimi Ibrahim in Lond from World news | The Guardian on (#6VRDJ)
Unexploded device found near Gare du Nord, France's busiest train terminal, halting Eurostar and other services
A second world war bomb found on rail tracks north of Paris was successively defused on Friday after a day of transport chaos in which the Gare du Nord station, used by Eurostar trains from London as well as other high-speed and local services, was shut, roads were closed and dozens of residents were evacuated in the suburb of St-Denis.
The unexploded bomb weighing 500kg was found in the middle of a set of tracks during overnight maintenance work in the early hours of Friday morning in the Parisian suburb, about 1.5 miles (2.5km) from the Gare du Nord.
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