Rio Tinto Ltd apologised Monday for the loss of a tiny radioactive capsule believed to have fallen from a truck that has sparked a radiation alert across parts of Western Australia.
Pakistan foreign ministry cited 3 instances of such smuggling, but in 2 of them, Indian investigation agencies found the material was not radioactive and in 1 it was 'weakly radioactive'.
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said that Pakistan's unverified claim was an attempt to malign the country and asserted that India maintains a stringent law-based regulatory system.
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