Germany: Leipzig explosive drone 'new level of danger'

· DW

Germany's Interior Minister Dobrindt, who cut his summer break short to deal with the Leipzig Airport situation, said the incident was being treated as a "hybrid attack scenario."

  • Federal police defused an explosive device found on a drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport
  • Investigators were also examining a second object that hit a cargo aircraft
  • German Interior Minister Dobrindt says drone incident being treated as 'hybrid attack scenario'
  • A lightning strike disabled two railway crossing barriers, effectively splitting a German town in two
  • A German employers' organization warns against the watering down of government pension reforms

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