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Eurostar trains cancelled after World War II bomb found near Paris Gare du Nord

Employees on a platform at Paris Gare du Nord station. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

Eurostar services from Paris were cancelled on Friday after a World War II bomb was found on tracks leading to Gare du Nord, France's busiest terminal.

The unexploded bomb was found "in the middle of the tracks" overnight during maintenance work carried out in the area of the northern Paris suburb of Saint Denis, the national SNCF rail company said.

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