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Munich airport cancels 200 flights after intruder alert

/ 08:06 AM July 29, 2018

Travelers gather in front of information boards at the Terminal 2 at Munich airport on July 28, 2018, as around 200 flights had to be canceled and two terminals evacuated after an unidentified person entered a secure area. AFP

BERLIN, Germany – Around 200 flights had to be canceled 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”.

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

Sixty flights were also delayed. /cbb

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