Easter egg hunt horror as 'radioactive poison' found while children search garden

Easter egg hunt horror as 'radioactive poison' found while children search gardenA vial of deadly radioactive poison was discovered in place of chocolate during an Easter egg hunt in south-west Germany - this is a breaking storyCommentsNewsEliana Nunes News Reporter10:08, 06 Apr 2026Updated 10:23, 06 Apr 2026View ImageThe poison was discovered during an Easter egg hunt (stock image)(Image: Getty Images)Suspected radioactive poison, used by Russia to assassinate its critics, was discovered in place of chocolate during an Easter egg hunt in south-west Germany.‌A small plastic bottle labelled "Polonium 210" was found in the garden of a home in the town of Vaihingen an der Enz, near Stuttgart, on Easter Sunday. Two men made the discovery and alerted emergency services, district fire chief Andy Dorroch said, adding 138 members of emergency personnel and 41 vehicles were dispatched to the scene. He said the two men were unharmed.‌It has not yet been confirmed whether the 50-millilitre vial actually contained polonium-210, which is a highly radioactive, rare isotope that is toxic if ingested or inhaled. It killed Russian defector Alexander Litvinenko, a former agent for the KGB and its post-Soviet successor agency, the FSB. He became violently ill in London after drinking tea laced with radioactive polonium-210 and died three weeks later.Article continues below"We are assuming that this is indeed the substance in question," Dorroch said. He noted that the name was "not just scribbled on by hand, but was clearly and officially labelled".This is a Breaking News story. You’ll be more likely to see our stories when any big news breaks in future by simply by clicking this link. You can also join The Mirror’s WhatsApp Community or follow us on Google News, Flipboard, Apple News, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads - or visit The Mirror homepage.