World IN BRIEF : BULGARIA : Police Confiscate Radioactive Cache
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Bulgarian police have found 19 containers of radioactive materials, including plutonium, hidden by amateur thieves in two cellars in Sofia, an Interior Ministry official said. Six Bulgarians were arrested in a weeklong operation to recover the biggest haul ever reported in this former Communist state. The haul follows a series of high-profile seizures of smuggled radioactive materials in Germany.
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