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Indian drug peddlers carried weapons grade uranium NEW DELHI, Saturday (AFP) Indian police found weapons-grade uranium on two men who were arrested in the country's north on suspicion of being drug peddlers, a report said Saturday. The discovery of 253.6 grams (8.8 ounces) of "99 percent uranium" was made when police pounced on Khurshid and Aslam last December in Uttar Pradesh state's Bareilly district, the Times of India said, giving only the first names of the two men. The uranium plates were found in a lead-lined sophisticated box, police told the newspaper. The substance was sent for analysis to the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in the western commercial hub of Bombay which sent back a report stating the rods were "99 percent uranium by weight". "I will not hazard a guess about where the uranium was headed," said director general of police R.P. Singh. "A number of top investigating agencies are currently looking into that," he added. Police sources told the newspaper the substance could have come from the Narora atomic facility in the Bulandshahr district of the state. |
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