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Thai accident
Friday, 10 March, 2000, 11:38 GMT
Thai man dies of radiation burns
A Thai man has died in hospital in Bangkok --the first fatality from a
serious radiation leak
last month.
The man, Niphon Phankan, was one of almost twenty people taken for treatment
to radiation
burns after four redundant radio-therapy machines were dumped illegally in a
car park on
the outskirts of the Thai capital.
Scrap dealers cut one of them up, and sold the pieces, leading to a
widespread health scare,
and urgent calls for tightening the regulationscovering obsolete
radio-active machinery.
Two other men are still in intensive care.
From the newsroom of the BBC World Service
John L. Salladay
salladayjl@mail.ports.navy.mil <mailto:jlsalladayjl@mail.ports.navy.mil>
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