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Police in Lower Saxony said Thursday that at about 2:30 a.m. the pigs apparently dug under a fence designed to keep them and other wildlife off the high-speed road.
Firefighters closed down a stretch of the highway but were unable to locate pigs, even with the help of thermal-imaging cameras.
Germany's DAPD news agency says the autobahn was reopened after three hours when it was believed that the pigs had left on their own accord.
