Presenter A Portuguese deputy-chief, who was stationed in the Balkans, died yesterday at the Amadora-Sintra hospital. The cause of death is not known but suspicions of depleted-uranium contamination have once more been raised. Hospital and police sources are declining to link the two.

Reporter Deputy-Chief Valadas was 43 and died on Tuesday night 27 February in hospital. Sources say he was not in Kosovo but in Bosnia, in Sarajevo, for three months in 1999. Some sources say that he had suffered for some time from kidney problems but it is not known whether this was the cause of death.

It is known that all policemen who served in the Balkans and have already been screened showed negative results...