Police find radiation in sushi bar linked to spy

LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) Police investigating the death of a former Russian spy from suspected radiation poisoning have found levels of radiation in a London sushi bar where he ate just before he became sick, health officials said today.

''The police reported that they had found some radiation there (in the Sushi bar). We are assessing the level of that and the potential risk to people that might cause,'' Pat Troop, head of the independent Health Protection Agency, told the BBC.

The HPA said polonium 210, a radioactive isotope, had been discovered in the body of Alexander Litvinenko, who died overnight at a London hospital after wasting away during three weeks of illness.

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