Belgium’s Liege airport has temporarily halted flights for a second time this week after another drone sighting, the country’s air traffic control service reported.

A drone was spotted at about 7:30am (06:30 GMT) on Friday, forcing the airport to close for 30 minutes. Flights have now resumed, said a spokesperson for the Skeyes air traffic control service.

The disruption follows drone sightings over airports in Brussels and Liege on Tuesday evening , resulting in the diversion of some incoming planes and the grounding of others that were due to depart.

Dozens of passenger and cargo flights were cancelled, and some 500 passengers were forced to spend the night at Brussels airport in the Belgian capital.

The drone sightings in Brussels and Liege follow a similar incident on Saturday, w

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