Last activists leave village at heart of German coal protest

A police officer helps an environmental activist in a wheelchair to the ground near the city of Sitz, Germany (AP)

The last two climate activists holed up beneath a German village due to be destroyed to allow for the expansion of a nearby coal mine have now left the site, according to reports.

The activists had remained inside a self-dug tunnel for days in a bid to prevent heavy equipment from being brought in to bulldoze the hamlet of Luetzerath, west of Cologne, the dpa news agency said.