Article: THE POISON TRAIL; Cops hunt for terror cell on run with stock of deadly ricin toxin.(News)

Byline: MARIE SHARP

SCOTS anti-terrorist officers are to hold secret talks with the Metropolitan Police as fears grow that an al-Qaeda cell is on the run with a cache of deadly ricin.

Scotland Yard intensified their hunt yesterday for the gang and a stock of the lethal poison.

Special Branch detectives believe at least three key plotters in a plan to kill dozens of Britons escaped Sunday's dragnet.

But security specialists believe as many as 20 North Africans, mainly Algerians, may be on the loose with a large stock of the toxin.

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