Via playfuls.com -
Investigators in London said they believe former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned at a hotel bar while meeting with two Russian businessmen.
The investigators said the seven staff members at the Pine Bar in London's Millennium Hotel who were working Nov. 1 -- the night of meeting -- tested positive for polonium-210, the radioactive isotope that poisoned the former spy, The Times of London reported Friday.
Health authorities were working Thursday to contact some 250 customers who visited the bar that night to see if those patrons were also exposed to radioactivity.
Pat Troop, of Britain's Health Protection Agency, told The Times the levels of the isotope found in the bar staff were similar to the level found in Litvinenko's wife. He said the levels posed no short-term danger to the infected staff but there was a "very small" risk that they could later develop cancer as a result of exposure.
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