Radioactive contamination on BA plane grounded at Moscow airport

Moscow, Nov 30 (UNI) Traces of radioactive contamination were today found aboard a British Airways passenger plane grounded at Moscow's Domodedovo airport.

RIA Novosti news agency reported quoting Russia's Transportation Ministry as saying that tests on the plane were conducted by a special team of Scotland Yard experts and specialists from the Russian environmental protection agency, as part of investigations into the death last week of former Russian FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, diagnosed with radiation poisoning.

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