Official figures show that disposal teams have defused 700,000 air-dropped bombs and made safe nearly 50 million mines, shells and other explosive devices in France since the end of the Second ...

Ordnance disposal experts Tuesday morning defused and removed a World War II explosive found near the tracks at Kaiserslautern’s main train station earlier in the day. The station and lines into ...

All trains were cancelled for much of the previous day following the discovery This photograph shows a train parked at a platform as traffic has been stopped at the Gare du Nord station in Paris ...

a team of bomb disposal squad was immediately dispatched to the area. They said that members of BDS safely defused the bomb after cordoning off the area.

PARIS - Rail services resumed on March 8 at Gare du Nord station in Paris, one of the busiest rail hubs in Europe, after all trains were cancelled for much of the previous day following the ...

The police successfully defused the explosive device, which weighs more than 1,000 pounds and was found near tracks north of the French capital during landscaping work. transcript The discovery of ...

Workers on the tracks about a mile north of the Gare du Nord discovered the bomb overnight, and the decision was immediately taken to suspend services in and out of the station. For now there are ...

Speaking to the BBC before the French transport minister confirmed the WW2 bomb had been defused, Lejeune says they thought it was the "better option" to cancel all 32 services between London and ...

Trains parked at platforms as traffic was stopped at the Gare du Nord station in Paris following the discovery of a World War II bomb. Photo: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP. Rail services resumed on ...

By Friday afternoon the metre-long bomb had been defused, with rail services expected to finally resume normal operations in the early evening after causing travel chaos in the French capital.

The Interior Ministry says that since World War II’s end in 1945, disposal teams have defused 700,000 air-dropped bombs and made safe nearly 50 million mines, shells and other explosive devices.