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**Alexander Litvinenko ‘killed on third attempt’ **- BBC
Two prior attempts to kill ex-Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may have been made before he died from radiation poisoning in 2006, the BBC has learned.
The one-time officer with the successor to the KGB fled to the UK where he became a fierce critic of the Kremlin and worked for security service MI6.
A public inquiry into the London death of the 43-year-old opens on Tuesday.
Mr Litvinenko’s wife says he blamed the Kremlin as he lay dying in hospital but Russia denies any involvement.
bbc.com/news/uk-30994242Marina Litvinenko says she hopes the judge-led inquiry at the Royal Courts of Justice will provide answers about what her lawyer described as “an act of state-sponsored nuclear terrorism on the streets of London”.