Three die after handling object

Cairo - A father and two children died, and five other children were seriously ill, after being contaminated by an object described…

Cairo - A father and two children died, and five other children were seriously ill, after being contaminated by an object described as radioactive, Egyptian police said.

Officials from the electricity ministry and the Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt retrieved the object in a lead container.

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