Hours of travel delays end as authorities defuse unexploded WWII bomb near Paris' Gare du Nord

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00:00A 12-hour operation to defuse an unexploded World War II-era bomb near France's busiest

00:05train station was completed successfully.

00:08In the early hours of Friday, French railway operator SNCF uncovered an object they suspected

00:13was a bomb near the tracks leading to Paris's Gare du Nord station.

00:17We have a team that moved immediately and we identified that it was an English bomb

00:24weighing 500 kilos, an excessively dangerous object.

00:28The defusal operation, which police decided to conduct on-site, has caused hours-long

00:33delays and cancellations to travel.

00:35French authorities say some 500 trains were cancelled, impacting around 600,000 travelers

00:40in the Parisian station.

00:41But the station, servicing international Eurostar routes, has impacted more travelers than just

00:46within the French capital.

00:47They told us we had to get off at Brussels, and so now we're in line trying to figure

00:48out how to get to Paris.

00:49We're not sure how we're doing it yet, but we'd like to get there today if it's possible.

00:57The discovery of unexploded World War I and II bombs are not uncommon in France, but they're

01:02rarely found in urban and populous areas.

01:05Authorities are thankful a horrific tragedy was narrowly missed.

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