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According to an official, neither the officials knew where the drone came from, nor did they take it down.
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Unidentified drones were sighted flying overnight above Denmark’s largest military base, reported AFP, citing officials. Officials believe that the incident is part of a series of similar sightings that they believe could be linked to a “hybrid attack.”
“I can confirm that we had an incident around 8:15 pm (1815 GMT Friday) that lasted for some hours. One to two drones were observed outside and over the airbase,” duty officer Simon Skelsjaer told AFP.
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He said that neither the officials knew where the drone came from, nor did they take it down, adding that the matter is currently being investigated by the police, along with the military.
The Karup base shares its runways with Midtjylland civilian airport, which was briefly closed as a precaution. Skelsjaer added that no flights were affected because there were no commercial flights scheduled at that time.
Earlier on Tuesday, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said the drone activity seemed designed “to disrupt and create unrest”, though authorities refrained from naming suspects.
Sightings of two or three large drones near Copenhagen airport late on Monday halted all take-offs and landings for nearly four hours. Authorities in Norway also shut the airspace at Oslo airport for three hours after a drone was seen.
“What we saw last night is the most serious attack on Danish critical infrastructure to date,” Frederiksen said in a statement sent to the media on Tuesday.
“We are obviously not ruling out any options in relation to who is behind it. And it is clear that this fits in with the developments we have observed recently with other drone attacks, violations of airspace, and hacker attacks on European airports,” she said.
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