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Drone with explosives found at German airport, official sees ‘new quality’ of threat
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WHEC.com
BERLIN (AP) — A drone with explosives was found at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport and the device was defused, authorities said Wednesday, in an incident that the country’s top security official said posed a “new quality of danger.”
An anti-explosives robot was deployed to check an object near the south runway.
That the drone was carrying explosives “is a new quality of danger,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters at the airport after interrupting his vacation to travel to the scene.
“Drone sightings, drone threats including in a hybrid context, are something we know from the past,” he added.
“That a drone armed with explosives is at an airport is a new threat scenario.”