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This Article is From Jul 29, 2018

Munich Airport Cancels Around 200 Flights After Intruder Alert

Several thousand people at the airport on a busy weekend of holiday departures had to be evacuated.

Munich Airport Cancels Around 200 Flights After Intruder Alert
Travellers gather in front of information boards at the Terminal 2 at Munich airport (AFP)
Berlin, Germany:

Around 200 flights had to be cancelled and two terminals evacuated at Munich airport on Saturday after an unidentified person entered a secure area, police and the airport said.

The person -- a woman -- made it into a secure area of Terminal 2 without being checked and then disappeared without trace despite an extensive search, police said, adding that they did not believe she represented an "extreme danger".

Several thousand people at the airport on a busy weekend of holiday departures had to be evacuated.

Sixty flights were also delayed.

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