A very similar one happened in Turkey as late as 1998! https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1102_web.pdf https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications

A very similar one happened in Turkey as late as 1998! https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1102_web.pdf https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1102_web.p... A hospital sold the Co-60 source they depleted to a company. The company got the license but didn't reexport them to US. They stored the containers in a generic warehouse without even security personnel and lost the track of them. The warehouse got sold and the containers are sold as scrap to members of public who are barely educated if at all. They probably didn't even know what radiation warnings all over the containers mean. They opened up the containers using an oxyacetylene torch in their garden and got contaminated and radiation sickness.