Related to this earlier story of a truck being hijacked which was carrying radioactive material supposedly used in medical applications. This is exactly the sort of material that can be used for a dirty bomb. None of the earlier reporting attributing this to a random hijacking made sense to me, now here is the follow up. While this story discusses the hospitalization of 6 individuals, buried deep in the article is the fact that two of the culprits are being held by Mexican federal police. I also want to to know the names of the suspects. I expect them to all be Mexican, I wouldn’t be surprised at all is there’s an Arab in there somewhere. Then, of course, the question is would they tell us if there was an “Other Than Mexican” involved.
Six people exposed to radioactive material stashed inside a stolen truck were being treated at a Mexico hospital on Friday, a day after authorities said they’d recovered all of the potentially deadly substance.
The five adults and one 16-year-old had apparently come into contact with cobalt-60 about 12 hours after the truck containing it and medical equipment was stolen Monday in Tepojaco, said Hidalgo state health official Jose Antonio Copca, as reported by state-run Notimex.
A source in the Hidalgo state government confirmed to CNN that six had been hospitalized for presumed contact with cobalt-60, adding that they lived near where the dangerous material was found.
All six were in stable condition at Pachuca General Hospital, according to Copca.
While the treatment for possible radiation poisoning is considerable, given how it can damage organs and cells, the state health official insisted that other patients at the hospital are not in danger.[Heh ==> ] News of their hospitalizations first surfaced on Twitter…
But the Notimex article detailing the hospitalizations did state that a 25-year-old man and a 16-year-old man are in federal police custody. The report did not say why they’d been detained, only that the Interior Ministry will soon have more details.
Hmmm, IMO this just does not pass the smell test.