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The two Britons hospitalized in critical condition in Salisbury were exposed to neurotic agent Novichok, the same who poisoned a former Russian double agent and his daughter this year in the English city, police said Wednesday. British. The anti-terrorism police services are conducting the investigation into the incident after exams in the Porton Down Military Laboratory confirm the nature of the substance, a nervous agent created in the Soviet Union.
"Tonight we received the results of the badyzes Neil Basu, the head of the British anti-terrorism agency, said in a statement that the 44-year-old man and woman identified by a friend as being Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess became ill on Saturday., in Amesbury, southwest of England, near the place where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on March 4. [19659002] – At risk –
"the same neurotoxic agent.
"The priority of the research team is to determine how these two people have been in contact with the nerve agent," he said.
According to Basu, there is no evidence "that suggests that the hospitalized man and woman were deliberately attacked.
" The government's priority to the safety of the inhabitants of the region, but as clearly stated public health in England, the risk to the population, "said Interior Minister Sajid Javid, who chaired an emergency meeting on Thursday.
At first, the police believed that they had been victims of an overdose of herpes or crack, but on Monday, both patients were sent samples to Porton Down "because the The symptoms that the man and the woman presented were disturbing, "Basu said.
However, he adds that "there is no indication that the man or woman recently had any of the contaminated sites after the badbadination attempts of Sergei and Yulia Skripal."
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Both are in critical condition, after entering the Salisbury District Hospital, the same clinic as the Skripal were treated.
The events are considered a "major incident", but "it is unclear whether a crime has been committed," Wiltshire Police Chief Paul Mills
a 29-year-old neighbor said Wednesday. Sam Hobson, L & # 39; AFP, who was a friend of the victims, said the woman was the first to get sick, and that "it was lathering by the mouth". He made strange noises and rocked back and forth without answering. "
Natalie Smyth, 27, who lives in the same district of Amesbury as the victims, AFP explained that Saturday saw" fire trucks, ambulances. "" They said that it was a chemical incident and that had to do with drugs. "They said it was a chemical incident and that it had to do with drugs – very strange, it's a very quiet place."
Police isolated several areas that could have been visited by those affected. According to the Guardian, Queen Elizabeth's gardens in Salisbury, according to local Speyer radio, were closed to the public and the police stationed in front of the Amesbury Baptist Church, because the victims allegedly participated in a sect before
On March 4, Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious and critically hospitalized in Salisbury after having a beer in a pub and having lunch in an Italian restaurant.
London accuses Moscow of being behind the attack on Skripal, former colonel of the military secret services
They were treated for weeks and eventually recovered and have received from senior doctors. Russians convicted of treason for pbading secrets to the English and settling in England after an exchange of spies.
The Kremlin denied any involvement, but the government of Theresa May denounced that the attack had been committed with a family agent. Novichok, manufactured in Russian military laboratories, had two options: Moscow would have used it on purpose or would have lost control of the substance.
This event spawned a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and a wave of diplomats for the United Kingdom and its allied countries, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other.
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