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Russian spy autopsy 'most dangerous ever'

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Thu, 29 Jan 2015, 11:16AM
Alexander Litvinenko (Supplied)
Alexander Litvinenko (Supplied)

Russian spy autopsy 'most dangerous ever'

Author
AAP,
Publish Date
Thu, 29 Jan 2015, 11:16AM

An inquest's been told the autopsy on the body of poisoned Russian former spy Alexander Litvinenko was one of the most dangerous ever performed.

Litvinenko died in a London hospital in 2006, three weeks after drinking tea infused with deadly polonium-210 at a luxury hotel.

Medical staff had to don two white safety suits, protective gloves and special hoods to conduct the examination a week later.

They found the 43-year-old had orally ingested a large quantity of polonium-210.

Dr Nathaniel Cary, the pathologist who led the examination, says he agrees the post-mortem was probably the most dangerous ever undertaken in the Western world.

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