Mexico finds radioactive load from stolen truck


  • World
  • Saturday, 05 Jul 2014

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican authorities on Friday found a load of dangerous radioactive material that was in a stolen pick-up, a top civil protection official said.

The load of iridium 192 was found abandoned on a street a few miles from where the truck was stolen in the industrial Mexico City suburb of Tlalnepantla, Luis Felipe Puente, the head of the country's civil protection agency, said on Twitter.

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