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British counterterrorism police investigated Wednesday after two people were left in critical condition, exposed to an unknown substance a few kilometers from where a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent.
a "major incident" after a man and a woman in his forties were hospitalized after being found unconscious in a residential building in Amesbury, 13 kilometers from Salisbury, where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned on March 4th.
says "given the recent events in Salisbury," counterterrorism agents were working with the local police on the investigation.
We keep an open mind about the circumstances surrounding this incident. – Wiltshire Police
the building and other places that both people visited before falling ill, but health officials said that there was no greater risk for the public. The man and woman were hospitalized Saturday at Salisbury District Hospital, where the Skripals spent weeks in critical condition after being poisoned.
Police said that they initially believed that the latest victims had been able to take a contaminated lot of heroin or crack. 19659002] "However, other tests are currently underway to establish the substance that led to the illness of these patients and we keep an open mind as to the circumstances surrounding this incident," said the police. "At this point, it is not yet clear whether a crime has been committed."
A major incident is a designation allowing the UK authorities to mobilize more than one emergency agency.
The incident is treated with the "maximum" "The spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May said:
The UK government's emergency intervention committee is" in a state of emergency ". was reunited in Wiltshire, in southwestern England, and the ministers were regularly updated
. Residents of the area, a quiet neighborhood of newly built homes and apartments, said that they had received little information from the authorities.
"Amesbury is a lovely place – quiet, uneventful," said Rosemary Northing a hundred feet from the curly building. "So for this to happen, and the media response and uncertainty, it's troubling."
Police stand at the front door of a residential property in Amesbury (Matt Dunham / Associated Press)
Police cars and fire trucks drove down to their homes Saturday night. Student Chloe Edwards said that she saw people in "green suit" – like those worn by forensic officers – and that her family was told to stay at home for several hours. .
"We wanted to know what happened and the Russian attack Britain accuses Russia of poisoning the Skripals with a nerve agent known as Novichok, a group of chemical weapons developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Moscow denies the allegation. The poisoning triggered a cold-war type diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West, including the expulsion of hundreds of diplomats from both sides
The anti-terrorist forces of the Metropolitan Police London were called to help local forces. Wiltshire at the time of the Skripal poisoning. On Wednesday, however, Scotland Yard sent back media calls to the Wiltshire Police
. The Wiltshire police arrived a month after police from 40 departments of England and Wales returned home after months of intoxication. Wiltshire Police spent about 7.5 million pounds ($ 13 million) to deal with the aftermath of the Skripals' poisoning and believe that its gateway was contaminated with the nerve agent.
The ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia are now Sergey Skripal, 66, is a former Russian intelligence officer who has been convicted of espionage for Britain before coming to live in an unknown place after being poisoned. in the UK as part of a prisoner exchange in 2010. He was living quietly in Salisbury, a cathedral town located 145 kilometers southwest of London, when he was floored by his girl of 33 years, Yulia.
After being found unconscious on the street, they pbaded state to the hospital. The doctors who treated them say that they have made a remarkable recovery, but they still do not know what is the long-term prognosis of Skirpals.
The Skripals were taken to an unknown place for their protection.
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