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Thursday, 16 April 2015

Authorities on Wednesday issued an alert for several Mexican states after thieves snatched potentially deadly radioactive material used for industrial radiography. The iridium-192 source, marked X-571, was inside a container stolen on Monday from a truck in Cardenas, a town in the southern state of Tabasco, the Mexican Secretariat of the Interior said in a statement. “This source is very dangerous to people if it is removed from its container,” the statement said, in the latest theft of...

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