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Explosive drone found at German airport marks ‘new quality of danger’, officials say
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7NEWS
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.
The south runway was scheduled to be out of action for maintenance on Wednesday.