AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Air traffic at Eindhoven airport in the south of the Netherlands was suspended for several hours on Saturday evening due to multiple drone sightings, Dutch defence minister Ruben Brekelmans said in a post on X.

Traffic resumed around 11 p.m. (2200 GMT), Brekelmans said, two hours after he had first reported the disruption.

“Defence has taken measures,” the minister said. “Out of security considerations no further information can be shared.”

The Dutch military on Friday evening had used weapons against drones sighted above the air force base in Volkel, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Eindhoven, the defence ministry had said earlier on Saturday.

Eindhoven serves both as a civilian and as a military airport. All types of air traffic were suspended, Brekelma

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