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Failed terrorist attack? French air traffic controller stabbed to death in secure area of airport tower
(DailyMail).An air traffic controller has been found dead in a pool of blood in the control tower of a French airport this morning.
The 34-year-old was found by an airport employee in an office adjoining the control room on the tenth floor of the tower shortly after 8am at the EuroAirport outside Mulhouse, France, near the Swiss and German borders.Police sources said the married father-of-one, who has not been named yet, had been stabbed three times in the throat, lung and chest.
A murder investigation has been launched.
The attack took place in the airport's secure zone only accessible with an identity badge, according to reporters in France.
No one has been arrested yet and know knives or weapons have been recovered. Air traffic at the airport was not affected whilst the investigation got underway.
The victim was a senior controller at the airport and was in charge of the tower. The airport in eastern France serves Basel, Switzerland, Mulhouse, France, and Freiburg, Germany.
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