Two six-year-old boys caused panic and a nuclear alert when they put up home-made signs saying the area they were playing in was radioactive. More than ten police and fire vehicles raced to the scene after a neighbour called the authorities having seen the sign on the house. Experts used Geiger counters to check for radioactivity - there was no-one to explain the mix-up as the boys had wandered off. “The fire crews responded to the call and brought the police. They closed off the roads and the surrounding area to the public, in order to deal with this supposed threat,” Warendorf police spokeswoman Susanne Dirkorte-Kukuk told The Local
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