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Flights suspended after man is sucked into plane engine on runway
Flights were suspended at an airport in northern Italy after a man was sucked into the engine of a plane and killed.
Police at Milan Bergamo International Airport told Sky News that the person appeared to run on to the runway before voluntarily entering the engine of the Volotea aircraft. A spokesperson for the airport in Bergamo, in the Lombardy region, has said the 35-year-old was not a passenger or employee.
Witnesses have said the man entered the airport terminal by driving the wrong way down a road. They added that he then left his car before running into the arrivals areas and heading to an emergency door that leads to the runway.
He then ran towards the engine of the plane that was preparing to take off, they added. The witnesses also said police and airport security went after the man but were not able to stop him.
Police are investigating, and flights have resumed. Read more from Sky News:Problems emerging at 'Alligator Alcatraz'First malaria treatment for babies approvedThree men guilty of arson attack ordered by Wagner Group Flight operations were suspended at the airport from 10.20am to noon local time (9.20am to 11am UK time) due to "a problem that occurred on the taxiway.
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