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Gavin Blackburn

Moldovan police called after resident takes home drone thinking it was 'a toy'

Police in Moldova deployed bomb disposal experts on Wednesday to a community miles from the Ukrainian border after a resident of a small town mistook a grounded drone for "a toy" and took it home.

When police arrived in Pepeni in the Sîngerei district, around 100 kilometres north of the capital Chișinău, they discovered that the drone found four days earlier had already been stripped of its parts.

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