Britain investigates how official lost secrets that ended up at bus stop


FILE PHOTO: An armed police officer stands guard outside of the Ministry of Defence building in London, Britain November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's defence ministry said on Monday that it was investigating how nearly 50 pages of secret military documents were lost by a senior ministry official and ended up at a provincial English bus stop.

The BBC reported that the classified documents - including some relating to Afghanistan and others analysing Russia's potential reaction to the passage of a British destroyer through the Black Sea - were found on Tuesday.

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