British police identify Russian suspects in the Novichok poisoning case: Reports

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London, July 19 (PTI) British police identified "several suspects" in the attempt to badbadinate the former officer Russian Sergei Skripal and his daughter poisoning them with a rare nerve An agent, reported the media, citing the result of investigations in the highly publicized case that hit the UK's relations with Russia.

Skripal, 66, and his daughter, 33, were found on a bench in the English city. On March 4, they were treated for exposure to Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent. Soviet, and were evacuated separately from the hospital several weeks later, before being transferred to safe places

. Door handle of Sergei Skripal's house

Several Russians were involved in the badbadination attempt on Sergei and Yulia Skripal, according to the Press Association

"They (the investigators) are sure that they are Russians. " 19659002] Met's police, who directs the investigation, declined to comment.

CNN, citing a source familiar with the ongoing investigation into the incident, reported that investigators have pbaded through months of surveillance cameras from British airports and Salisbury, where the Skripals were poisoned in an attack that the British government attributes to Russia.

Using facial recognition technology, the authorities discovered two "fresh identities" – individuals not known to have been spies or used in other attacks.

Investigators cross-checked this information with the leaked manifesto on which the suspects reportedly left Britain shortly after the March attack. They traveled on aliases, the CNN report said.

A British station in Cyprus intercepted a coded Russian message in Moscow just after the poisoning saying that the two had left the UK, he quoted the source as saying. on the Skripals led to a diplomatic dispute with Russia. The United Kingdom has expelled 23 Russian diplomats and more than 20 other countries, including the United States, have done the same.

Russia has repeatedly denied its participation in the attack and has advanced multiple theories. Asked about the latest developments, the Russian ambbadador to the United Kingdom Alexander Yakovenko told the BBC: "Unfortunately, we have no official statement from the British side."

"I want to hear that from Scotland Yard or from the Foreign Ministry … Many versions we hear in the newspapers, they are not supported by the Foreign Office," said Yakovenko.

Tensions rose even earlier this month when two British residents of Amesbury, near Salisbury, became ill. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died later, while her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, stays in the hospital.

Although police said that there was no suggestion that the couple had been deliberately targeted, an investigation into a murder Last week, police announced they had identified a small bottle found in Rowley's home as the source of the nerve agent that killed his partner.

It is not known where Rowley found the bottle, or if it's the same lot Meanwhile, an investigation into Sturgess's death was opened and adjourned today.The coroner David Ridley has said the cause of death would not be given before further testing, the BBC carried. PTI AKJ AKJ AKJ