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| Cologne airport Terminal 2 evacuated due to security breach | |
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| Parts of Cologne airport have been evacuated after a "breach" involving a woman who was able to walk through security without being checked. | |
| At least one flight has been cancelled and several more are delayed after the failure to check a passenger sparked a major police operation. | |
| A spokesman for Cologne Bonn Airport told The Independent the evacuation of Terminal 2 was still going on and a "federal police investigation" had been launched. | |
| But he denied earlier reports that both terminals were evacuated, and that there had been a separate incident involving "unauthorised people" entering the airfield. | |
| "A woman passed security check without being checked," he said. "In such cases there is a rule that the whole security area has to be evacuated." | |
| Passenger Marco Tarsia posted an image to social media showing throngs of passengers being forced to leave the terminal in order for checks to be carried out again. | |
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