Two men found “deadly radioactive poison” – historically used by Russia to assassinate its critics – while on an Easter egg hunt.<\/p>\n
Instead of chocolate, a bottle containing a rare isotope labeled “Polonium 210” was found in the backyard garden of a home in the German city of Stuttgart.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsign up for Sun<\/span> Newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n What started as a report to the police ended with 138 emergency personnel and 41 vehicles deployed to the scene in Vahingen an der Enz.<\/p>\n A radiation protection unit was also dispatched after the discovery of a white plastic bottle with a red lid.<\/p>\n A spokesman for the fire department said, “It’s not just handwritten on the label; it’s clearly and officially marked.”<\/p>\n Although tests are still pending, the vial is considered “genuine”. <\/p>\n ‘The war is over, so go’<\/p>\n Germany tells 720k migrants to go home now civil war is over<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Leo McKinstry<\/p>\n Spying on the press dates back to the Soviet era and makes the Prime Minister’s promise seem so hollow<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The liquid \u2013 which weighs an estimated 200 grams \u2013 is relatively heavy, which makes it consistent with the fact that polonium-210 is a relatively dense substance. <\/p>\n Often described as an unkillable poison, it was behind the assassination of Kremlin critic and former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko.<\/p>\n After moving to the UK in 2000, he became a staunch critic of Vladimir Putin and began working for MI6 as a consultant.<\/p>\n He was poisoned with radioactive polonium-210 during a meeting with former KGB agents Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun at London’s Millennium Hotel in 2006, and died in agony three weeks later.<\/p>\n On his deathbed, Litvinenko accused Putin himself of ordering his assassination.<\/p>\n The death of Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat in 2004 is also widely suspected to be a polonium-210 assassination.<\/p>\n Swiss scientists found levels 18 times higher than normal in their remains in 2013.<\/p>\n Once swallowed, the isotope is difficult to detect because all the radiation remains in the body.<\/p>\n A lethal dose can be as small as a few milligrams, given either as a powder or dissolved in liquid.<\/p>\n It is one of several radioactive poisons that can be used as a lethal weapon while causing no harm to the killer. <\/p>\n If it is stored in a glass bottle like the one in Stuttgart, the radiation remains inside.<\/p>\n Germany’s Environment Ministry will now test what is hidden inside it.<\/p>\n Whether or not the vial actually contained polonium still needed to be determined definitively.<\/p>\n Two men found “deadly radioactive poison” – historically used by Russia to assassinate its critics – while on an Easter egg hunt. Instead of chocolate, a bottle containing a rare isotope labeled “Polonium 210” was found in the backyard garden of a home in the German city of Stuttgart. sign up for Sun Newsletter Thank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[555,6056,1710,6527,16278,504,14570,16411,5361,16293],"class_list":{"0":"post-42342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-easter","9":"tag-egg","10":"tag-find","11":"tag-garden","12":"tag-hunt","13":"tag-men","14":"tag-poison","15":"tag-polonium","16":"tag-radioactive","17":"tag-vials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42344,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42342\/revisions\/42344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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