Chemical Hazard Police Join Berezovsky Death Probe

Police with expertise in environments contaminated with chemical, biological and nuclear material are searching the house of the late exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky.

Berezovsky, 67, was found dead on Saturday and police are currently treating his death as unexplained.

His body body was reportedly found in a bath on Saturday afternoon. An ambulance was called to his Ascot house at 15:18 GMT.

"Specially trained officers are currently at the scene, including CBRN [chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear] trained officers, who are conducting a number of searches as a precaution," Thames Valley police have told the BBC.

Police is treating Berezovsky's death as "unexplained" for now, although some of his family friends and close associates earlier claimed he had suffered a heart attack.

Berezovsky was a close friend of another Russian fugitive and former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who died in London in 2006 from poisoning by radioactive polonium-210.

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