Ex-Russian spy's contact in hospital
A close contact of Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-Russian spy who died after apparently being poisoned with radioactivity, was in a London hospital Saturday after testing positive for the same substance.
Mario Scaramella, who met the exiled former agent at a central London sushi restaurant on November 1, was admitted to University College Hospital London (UHCL) on Friday after polonium-210 was detected in his body.
Doctors said late Friday that Scaramella was "well" and not showing any signs of radiation poisoning but several British newspapers Saturday gave a more serious assessment of the Italian academic's condition.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The tabloid Daily Mirror quoted an unnamed police source as saying: "Doctors have assessed that his chances of survival at virtually nil. They think he will now become progressively more ill and die.
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