The assassination

The assassination

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Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square

The third attempt to poison Litvinenko took place at around 5 pm of 1 November 2006 in the Millennium Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The bus he travelled in to the hotel had no signs of radioactivity – but large amounts had been detected at the hotel. Polonium was subsequently found in the Lugovoj's fourth-floor room number 441 and in a cup in the Pine Bar at the hotel.

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Written by Nik Frost

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