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A Nato official said: “We are aware of the incident, which the German authorities continue to investigate.” The drone, a quadcopter that was fitted with an explosive device, was found near a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane, according to media reports. The report said German investigators were tipped off by a foreign intelligence service at the end of last year and arrested a Ukrainian man and a Romanian woman this spring. Investigators said “a drone carrying an unknown explosive device was spotted by an airport employee in the security area of the cargo operations zone near the south runway” of Leipzig airport, a facility classified as “critical infrastructure”. “A suspected second unidentified flying object collided with a cargo aircraft after it had taken off again following the previous closure of the runway.