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Terminals Closed at Munich Airport After Unauthorised Person Entered Airside Area

Munich is Germany's second-largest airport and Europe's eighth-busiest, with nearly 130,000 passengers using it daily.
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Thousands of travellers are stranded at Germany’s Munich airport after an unidentified person managed to enter the clean area of Terminal 2 through an emergency exit door.

​According to Lufthansa, Terminal 2 and areas B and C of Terminal 1 are currently locked down due to the incident.

The airport reported that security forces detained the person in question, and the Federal Police are currently interviewing him.​

Passengers at the airport took to Twitter to complain about the lack of information as to what caused the delays and the lack of drinking water.

The airport tweeted in its official account that the access to Terminal 1 has been restored while the access to Terminal 2 remains restricted.

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