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Two people were hospitalized in critical condition at Salisbury Hospital after being exposed to a [substance inconnue] in Amesbury a few kilometers from the site in which Ex-Russian spy Serguei Skripal was the victim of an attempted poisoning in March.
Both patients "are treated for an alleged exposure to an unknown substance at Salisbury Hospital". On Wednesday, the Wiltshire County Police, who claimed to consider the facts as a "major incident" .
The two persons, a man and a woman, were found unconscious on Saturday, June 30 in a town house of Amesbury (south of England), a dozen kilometers from Salisbury, where Serguei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were victims of an attempt at poisoning with a nerve agent on 4 March.
Both patients "are in critical condition," police said.
At first, the body issued the hypothesis of contamination related to the use of heroin or crack, but said that additional tests were in course "to establish the nature of the substance make these patients sick."
"We are open about the circumstances of the incident," he added.
Several police cordons were set up in the places that the affected people could have visited before.
Police deployment in Amesbury and Salisbury was also strengthened.
The Public Health England Public Health Agency (PHE) has estimated that the student event "no significant health risk to people" .
A conclusion that will, however, be "continually reevaluated, based on information obtained," said a spokesman for PHE at the press badociation.
On March 4, Serguei and Yulia Skripal were found unconscious and hospitalized in critical condition in Salisbury. Both had been victims of an attempt at poisoning with a nervous agent.
They were treated for weeks before being released.
London accused Moscow of being behind the Skripal case, but the Kremlin denied any involvement.
This event provoked a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and a wave of cross-border expulsions of diplomats between the United Kingdom and its allied countries, on the one hand, and Russia, on the other share.
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