Warning as cancer-causing radioactive capsule lost in Australia

Tiny Caesium-137 capsule reported missing more than two weeks after being transported from mining site

Authorities have sounded a radiation alert in parts of the Western Australia state on Saturday after a tiny radioactive capsule being transported from a mine was lost en-route to state capital Perth.

Officials said the small silver capsule containing Caesium-137 was misplaced during transportation from a mine north of Newman – a small town from Kimberley region – to a storage facility in the northeast suburbs of Perth.

An alert has been sounded for a “radioactive substance risk” in several areas, the department of fire and emergency services said.