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Now Gruinard is ablaze!
A Scottish island where government scientists carried out secret germ warfare experiments during World War Two has been engulfed by a wildfire.
Gruinard Island, off the north west coast, is known as Anthrax Island because of a Ministry of Defence operation that saw sheep exposed to the lethal bacteria in tests to find a way of harnessing it as a weapon.
The island, which has remained uninhabited, was finally classified as anthrax-free in 1990 after a campaign by a group known as the Dark Harvest commandos to highlight the contamination of the soil during the 1980s.
On Saturday night, the sky above Gruinard Island was lit up by flames.
Nessie Gearing and her mum Kate saw the light in the sky from their home in Aultbea.
“We were at home and saw an orange glow in the sky and thought we’d investigate,” Kate told STV News.
“Driving up to it was just apocalyptic,” Nessie said. ...
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islan...-of-germ-warfare-experiments-engulfed-by-fire
A Scottish island where government scientists carried out secret germ warfare experiments during World War Two has been engulfed by a wildfire.
Gruinard Island, off the north west coast, is known as Anthrax Island because of a Ministry of Defence operation that saw sheep exposed to the lethal bacteria in tests to find a way of harnessing it as a weapon.
The island, which has remained uninhabited, was finally classified as anthrax-free in 1990 after a campaign by a group known as the Dark Harvest commandos to highlight the contamination of the soil during the 1980s.
On Saturday night, the sky above Gruinard Island was lit up by flames.
Nessie Gearing and her mum Kate saw the light in the sky from their home in Aultbea.
“We were at home and saw an orange glow in the sky and thought we’d investigate,” Kate told STV News.
“Driving up to it was just apocalyptic,” Nessie said. ...
https://news.stv.tv/highlands-islan...-of-germ-warfare-experiments-engulfed-by-fire
