A newspaper has reported that a senior US government scientist has apparently committed suicide just as prosecutors were about to charge him with carrying out a series of deadly anthrax attacks in 2001.
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US fugitive Vesco reported dead ... biodefence research laboratories near Washington DC. The paper said the 62-year-old Ivins had been informed of his impending prosecution shortly before his death on Tuesday. The anthrax was sent by post to media organisations and politicians shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The attacks killed five people and made 17 others ill.
(Deutsche Welle)
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