Bomb found on French rail line
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Posted: 1:20 PM EST (1820 GMT)
PARIS, France (CNN) -- A rail worker found an explosive device half-buried in the bed of a railway line heading from France to Switzerland, government officials and the French rail service SNCF said.
"An employee from SNCF was working on the trackwhen he found something suspicious and he contacted the police." said an SNCF spokeswoman.
According to a statement from the Interior Ministry, the device -- discovered near the city of Troyes -- had been defused by bomb disposal experts.
The ministry said the bomb was small and would not have damaged the tracks.
As a precaution, the French Government has raised their TERROR ALERT from 'RUN' to 'HIDE'.