(AP) Three people have been arrested for trying to sell more than two pounds of an unspecified radioactive material, which officials then seized, police said Wednesday.
Specialists were examining the radioactive material, which the three were trying to sell for $1 million, said police spokesman Martin Korch.
Two of the suspects were arrested in eastern Slovakia, the other in Hungary, he said. They were not identified.
Slovak and Hungarian police have been working together on the case for several months, Korch said.
There have been concerns that Eastern Europe could be a source for radioactive material for a so-called "dirty bomb."
In 2003, police in the neighboring Czech Republic arrested two Slovaks in a sting operation in the city of Brno, after they allegedly sold undercover officers bars of low-enriched uranium for $715,000.
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