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The London Metropolitan Police are investigating after a shipment contaminated with uranium was found at Heathrow Airport

Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the shipment, which originated from Pakistan.

There are strict rules around handling of the nuclear fuel, which can be used in so-called “dirty bombs"

A small amount of uranium was detected in a package that arrived at London's Heathrow Airport on 29 December, British police said.

Scotland Yard said there was no threat to the public.

A shipment containing several kilograms of Uranium was seized at UK's Heathrow Airport, following which a major counter-terrorism probe was launched, Dailymail Online, the website of the Daily Mail, a tabloid newspaper based in UK reported on Wednesday.

An investigation has been launched after a package containing uranium was found at London's Heathrow Airport last month. The deadly material, which is used to make nuclear weapons, was not 'weapon grade' and thus could not be used to manufacture a thermo-nuclear weapon, said the Daily Mail report. However, the package, which reportedly came from Pakistan, could have been intended to be used in the making of a dirty bomb. AFP reports that the package, which had arrived on an Oman...

Britain’s counter-terrorism police has launched an investigation after material contaminated with a radioactive substance was be found at Heathrow Airport.

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COUNTER-terror cops and security services are investigating after a deadly shipment of uranium was seized at Heathrow.The undeclared nuclear material