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“Hopefully we don’t have to experience another natural disaster, but you never know,” Rimkunas said, adding that the endeavor was “one of the largest and most complex traffic control operations in its history.”

Officials at Brussels's second-largest airport, Charleroi, said air traffic was briefly halted there as a precaution too.

Vítor Ananias, head of Portugal's police unit to combat drug trafficking, told a press conference that their different nationalities showed the organisation behind them was not just based in one country.

Skeyes, the company responsible for air traffic control in Belgium, did not immediately respond to AFP's request for comment.

She says the U.S.’s anti-narcotics policies will help improve security in a country where the trafficking of drugs, arms and humans has driven up violent crime.