SAN BERNARDINO - A parking control officer found an ice chest-size box containing industrial radioactive material this morning in the parking garage of the Carousel Mall in San Bernardino. The structure was empty and no one was reported injured, San Bernardino City Fire Department Capt. Martin Estacio said. Police cordoned off the parking structure while firefighters called a Riverside company to retrieve its equipment.
The plastic yellow box contained a radioactive check source device, Estacio said. The devices are used for checking water wells, pipes and metal. Symbols on the outside of the box indicated it contained radioactive material.
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Bomb explodes in Bulgaria, no injuries reported
2008-03-19
SOFIA -- A bomb was detonated late on Tuesday near the building where Bulgarian regional police chiefs were holding their annual meeting in Plovdiv, the country's second-largest city, local Sofia News Agency reported Wednesday.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumen Petkov and Chief Prosecutor Boris Velchev were also at the meeting, authorities said. The explosive device was detonated to destroy a lawyer's office, situated in a newly constructed residential building. Fortunately, the blast did not claim any victims but caused serious damage to the whole building.
The area has been cordoned off by police while officers make a second analysis of the scene. An investigation into the incident is underway.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/19/content_7822379.htm
“Cesium 137”
Thanks Oorang.