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Jun 23, 2009, 10:24 GMT

German six-year-olds cause alarm with atomic reactor game

Oelde, Germany - The emergency services in a north-western German town were placed on high alert after two six-year-olds built a toy atomic reactor complete with radioactivity warning signs, the police said on Tuesday. The two boys in the town of Oelde had set up bits of computer casing on the pavement and attached a radioactivity warning sign downloaded from the internet, before heading home for a rest. When the kids reappeared to play with their toy reactor, the surrounding area had been sealed off. Emergency alerts were issued on the radio, warning neighbours not to leave their homes after a passer-by had spotted the suspicious contraption on Monday evening. The fire brigade eventually gave the all-clear, after they failed to detect a radioactive reading. The children's parents had initially assumed an emergency drill was underway. When they read on the internet about the actual cause of the deployment, they confessed to the police that their young sons had caused the alarm.

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