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Officials follow radioactive trail

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From Times Wire Reports

The British government began tracking radioactive hotspots in London in an attempt to trace the poison that killed a former KGB agent.

Three people who reported possible symptoms of contamination were tested, but results will take several days.

Britain announced a formal inquest after the death of Alexander Litvinenko, but Home Secretary John Reid warned against rushing to conclusions about who might be responsible.

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Litvinenko died Thursday of what doctors said was poisoning by polonium-210, a radioactive substance. Six sites have shown traces of radiation, one of which reportedly houses an office of self-exiled Kremlin critic and tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

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