Radioactive material seized on Georgian-Armenian border

Radioactive material seized on Georgian-Armenian border

Kavkasia-Press news agency
13 Mar 04

TBILISI

[Georgian] border guards have detained a citizen of Armenia at
Sadakhlo checkpoint on the Georgian-Armenian border as he tried to
smuggle radioactive material into the country.

Kavkasia-Press was told by the border agency’s press office head,
Shalva Londaridze, that according to preliminary information, a
citizen of Armenia had been detained. The border agency has launched
an investigation into the matter, Londaridze said. [Passage omitted]