ARMENPRESS
ARMENIANS ARRESTED WHILE TRYING TO SMUGGLE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TO TURKEY
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, ARMENPRESS: Georgian border guards have
detained four citizens of Armenia as they were trying to smuggle into
Turkey radioactive material, Georgia’s border police told
Novosti-Georgia news agency.
The Armenians were arrested on Georgian-Turkish border when trying
to go through Sarpi border check point. Georgian border guards found
on one of them 2.04 grams of a radioactive material known as
`lovresium.’
Georgian authorities said the Armenians were arrested on October
24. They refused to reveal the Armenians’ names `not to damage the
investigation.’ No other details are available.
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