The Customs Service will send 29 wagons of radioactive coal from Kulandy coal field in Kazakhstan, which were stopped in Kara-Balta on the railway border crossing point on October 27, back to Kazakhstan, CA-NEWS quoted State Customs Service spokesperson Abdylda Maldybaev as saying on Thursday.
Such decision was made by the interdepartmental commission established at the oder of the Kyrgyz government, he said.
"The radiation control equipment showed the radiation level exceeds the norms. The measurement findings were sent to the Ministry of Emergency Situations," he said