Germany news: Lost man triggers shutdown at Hamburg airport
Key takeaways
- Hamburg airport was shut down Friday when a man mistakenly entered a restricted security area.
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- Police say it was unclear what the man's intentions were when he hit the button that opened escape routes, allowing him to wander into the restricted area.
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Hamburg airport was shut down Friday when a man mistakenly entered a restricted security area. A report on Timmy the stranded whale found the animal drifted for days before dying after being freed. DW has the latest.
https://p.dw.com/p/5FHTu Image: Georg Wendt/dpa/picture alliance Advertisement Skip next section What you need to know What you need to know Federal police temporarily shut down sections of Hamburg airport on Friday, halting all flights and sparking evacuations after a man wandered into a restricted security area A postmortem report on a stranded humpback whale dubbed Timmy by the German media found that the mammal drifted some 200 kilometers (125 miles) over the course of four days after being transported to open waters where it subsequently died German inflation sank temporarily after the introduction of fuel rebates according to federal statistics, yet economic recovery in the country remains slow Read this and more from Germany on Friday, June 12
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