UK Counter-Terror Police Investigating After Uranium Detected in Package at Heathrow Airport

UK Counter-Terror Police Investigating After Uranium Detected in Package at Heathrow Airport
A plane landing at Heathrow airport in London, on June 8, 2020. Steve Parsons/PA
Alexander Zhang
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Britain’s counter-terrorism police have launched an investigation after material contaminated with a radioactive substance was found at London’s Heathrow Airport last month.

Uranium was detected in a package at the airport on Dec. 29. According to the Sun newspaper, which first reported the incident, the package had originated from Pakistan and arrived in the UK on a flight from Oman.