Britain’s counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation after material contaminated with a radioactive substance was found at London’s Heathrow Airport last month.
Uranium was detected in a package at the airport on Dec. 29. According to the Sun newspaper, which first reported the incident, the package had originated from Pakistan and arrived in the UK on a flight from Oman.
The uranium was found in a shipment of scrap metal, according to the BBC.
The Metropolitan Police said in a statement issued on Tuesday evening: “We can confirm officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command were contacted by Border Force colleagues at Heathrow after a very small amount of contaminated material was identified after routine screening within a package incoming to the UK on Dec. 29, 2022.”…