The bomb, which was reportedly discovered at around 4am on Friday (7 March) by construction workers on the tracks near the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, has now been defused.
Before that happened Eurostar axed services throughout the whole of Friday, impacting both the London-Paris, Paris-London line as well as Brussels-Paris and Paris-Brussels lines.
“Due to the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb near Paris Gare du Nord, rail traffic in and out of Paris is disrupted,” a Eurostar spokesperson said at the time.
