UK Moscow embassy to be tested in poison probe

LONDON - Radiation experts will test the British embassy in Moscow in the next day or two as a precaution in the probe into the poisoning death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, a Foreign Office spokesman said today.

No embassy staff, however, will be tested for radiation, the spokesman said.

"It is just some precautionary tests that are taking place in a room in the embassy," he said.

British police officers have flown to Russia to widen their inquiry into the death of Litvinenko, who died in a London hospital on Nov. 23 from a lethal dose of radioactive polonium 210.

- REUTERS