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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Deborah Cole in Berlin

US intelligence ‘believes Russia was behind Leipzig airport drone bomb’

A police officer in protective clothing in front of an explosive-disarming robot at Leipzig/Halle airport in Schkeuditz, Germany
A police officer in protective clothing in front of an explosive-disarming robot at Leipzig/Halle airport in Schkeuditz, Germany on 5 August. Photograph: Axel Schmidt/Reuters

American intelligence experts believe Russia was behind an attack on a German airport last week with a drone laden with explosives, US media have reported, as Berlin remained silent on the likely culprit.

Last week’s security emergency prompted the interior minister, Alexander Dobrindt, to break off his summer holiday in Italy and rush to the scene in the eastern city of Leipzig, as he spoke of a “new level of danger” for Germany.

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