Traffic of Paris metro resumes after fresh bomb scare

A staff working on the station confirmed that the alert was fake while police told Xinhua they found nothing suspicious on the site.

The traffic was gradually returning to normal, but there weren't many travelers in sight.

Police, however, didn't elaborate how the bomb alert was transmitted but said an investigation is underway.

The Saint-Lazare station is a major joint of Paris metro lines in the heart of the city, therefore evacuation of the station following the alert had suspended trains on five lines for at least 30 minutes in the early afternoon, according to SNCF, the national railway operator.

This was the third bomb scare within two weeks as state intelligence officials warned of potential terror attacks on France.

In mid-September, as many as 2,500 people were warned away from the hottest tourism site the Eiffel Tower on one night after an anonymous phone call. On Sept. 21, a second bomb scare at a railway station in southern suburbs of Paris prompted another evacuation.

France has raised the country's national security alert level to red, one level below the highest degree of scarlet.