Bomb found on French rail line
Last updated at 13:00 25 March 2004
A bomb was discovered yesterday buried on a French rail line leading to Switzerland.
Bomb disposal experts defused the device, which was half-buried under a track in the village of Montieramey, on the line from Paris to Basel, the Interior Ministry said.
It had been spotted by a rail employee.There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
The Interior Ministry said the device did not resemble bombs described in threats by a mysterious and previously unknown group calling itself AZF.
The group claimed to have planted nine bombs along the country's rail network and has threatened to explode them unless it is paid millions of pounds.
The group's threats, first disclosed in early March, appeared in at least three letters sent to the offices of President Jacques Chirac and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in December and February.
The letters, demanding almost £3 million - threatened railway targets.
Information from the group led to the recovery in February of a sophisticated explosive device buried in tracks near Limoges in central France.
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