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To: KLP who wrote (869)5/11/2003 4:37:55 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 794032
 
>>Link please. I've seen nothing to indicate that.<<

Ghostrider supplied the link in his response to you. Here it is again:

asahi.com

"In what may prove to be deadly errors, they dumped the radioactive substance on land near their village and washed the drums in a local river.

Officials believe the looters inevitably inhaled large quantities of the uranium. To make a bad situation worse, the villagers may have ingested radioactive material after converting the drums to water and cooking oil containers."