The bomb was discovered in Paris around 4 a.m. by workers doing earth-moving work near the tracks in the Seine-Saint-Denis region. Eurostar trains to and from London were brought to a halt.

A French government official said Friday that transport services would gradually resume from 6pm local time (1700 GMT) after the successful disposal operation of a WWII bomb found overnight on

Decades after the end of heavy bombing during the First and Second World Wars, France is still dealing with millions of unexploded bombs, mines and other artillery buried in the ground.