(Adds comment by airport operator, background, paragraphs 2-3) OSLO, Oct 5 (Reuters) – Lithuania has suspended air traffic at Vilnius Airport due to a possible presence of hot air balloons in its airspace, and flights have been diverted, public broadcaster LRT and the BNS news agency reported late on Saturday, citing local officials. European aviation has repeatedly been thrown into chaos in recent weeks by drone sightings and air incursions, including at airports in Copenhagen and Munich. "Air traffic is temporarily suspended due to, to our knowledge, a possible series of balloons heading in the direction of Vilnius," a spokesperson for airport operator LTOU told BNS. (Reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis and Terje Solsvik in Oslo Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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