22:56, 4 January 2007

Traces of polonium, Litvinenko's "killer," detected in two Britons

Two more persons in Great Britain have exposed traces of polonium-210, the radioactive substance used to poison ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko. The medical authorities of the country have reported this piece of news today.

The statement of the British Public Health Agency runs that the first contamination case was detected in an employee of the Best Western Hotel in the Piccadilly, where police made a search after Litvinenko's death.

Polonium-210 traces were also detected in a visitor of the Pine Bar in the Millennium Hotel, where on November 1 Mr. Litvinenko met Andrei Lugovoj and Dmitri Kovtun.

The statement stresses that small doses of radioactive substances were revealed in these two persons, which are no threat to their life, the Reuters reports.