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New Delhi: A radioactive leak was detected in the cargo area of the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport on Friday morning.
According to initial reports, the radioactive leak was detected from a container carrying nuclear medicine, which had arrived here from a Turkish airline.
As the news spread, anti-sabotage teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) were immediately rushed to the spot to take stock of the situation.
The security officials deployed at the airport also cordoned off the entire area to avoid any panic and inconvenience to passengers.
The situation is said to be fully under control and there is no health scare.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said that there is no need to panic and the radioactive leakage at the cargo complex in IGI Airport has been folly plugged.
In 2010, too, there was a radioactive leak at Delhi’s Mayapuri industrial area.
A scrap dealer and some other people suffered burn injuries and fell unconscious after coming in contact with radioactive material Cobalt-60. One person later died.
