Argentine police find some of stolen toxic chemical
Date: 28-Aug-02
Country: ARGENTINA
Police found 12 tonnes of the substance in several bags in an abandoned tractor trailer in a poor suburb outside Buenos Aires on Saturday, provincial police said in a statement. Officials were not immediately available to give details on what happened to the rest of the stolen shipment.
The substance was stolen from a large truck last Monday as it was being driven to a petrochemical plant belonging to local chemical firm Atanor . The police said they had returned the material to the company.
A spill of the same toxic material - which can be used to make crop fumigation materials among other things - in a poor Buenos Aires suburb a decade ago killed seven people.
In May, thieves in Mexico stole a truck carrying 10 tonnes of lethal sodium cyanide, sparking fears it could be used by terrorists, but the majority of the shipment later was recovered.
