NATO air base in Geilenkirchen sealed off due to suspected sabotage, military says


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  • Wednesday, 14 Aug 2024

BERLIN (Reuters) - A NATO air base in the German town of Geilenkirchen was sealed off due to a suspected case of sabotage on Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the German military's Territorial Command in Berlin said, after a similar incident at a barracks in Cologne.

Sueddeutsche Zeitung was first to report the incident in Geilenkirchen.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold, Editing by Rachel More)

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