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LONDON: Britain today holds an emergency cabinet on a couple who have been gravely ill after being exposed to the same neurotoxic agent used on an old Russian spy at the beginning of the year. [19659003Leministredel'InteriorSajidJavidpresideralesparentsinLondonwhenthepolicentiterroristwillrequestanincidentalsurveyatAmesburyunvillagedusudWest-WestofEngland
The village is close to the city of Salisbury. Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found on a bench on March 4 in an incident that sparked a diplomatic crisis with Russia. "The possibility that these two investigations may be linked is clearly an avenue of investigation for us," said Neil Basu, head of the British anti-terrorist police force
Police said Wednesday that tests conducted in the laboratory British defense Porton Down had confirmed that the substance was Novichok, which Britain says to be a Soviet army. "The priority of the investigative team is now to establish how these two people came in contact with this nerve agent," said Basu.
"We have no idea what may have contained the nerve." The police chief said that it was the same nerve agent used against the Skripal, but "if we could to use it. "
Basu said that there was no evidence to suggest that the man and woman, locally named as Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess," were targeted in some way whether it's ".
Basu stated that there was no evidence that the man and the woman had "recently visited one of the sites that were decontaminated" after poisoning. Skripals.
"This remains a low risk for the general public," he added.
"We are convinced that if anyone was exposed to this level of nerve agent in" The 44-year-old woman first collapsed and an ambulance was called around 9:15 GMT, while the 45-year-old man became ill later and an ambulance was called at 1430 GMT for
Police initially badumed that both had consumed contaminated drugs.
But samples of both patients were sent to Porton Down on Monday "because of concerns about the symptoms that the man and the woman were showing," Basu said.
Both are still in critical condition and are at the Salisbury District Hospital – the same facility where the Skripals were treated.
Sam Hobson, 29, told AFP that he was a friend of the pair "He was sweating, he was dribbling, and you could not talk to him, he was making weird noises and he swayed back and forth, "Hobson said. It's like he's in another world.
"In Salisbury, local residents said that they were" shocke "" I was shocked to learn that something had happened so soon after the last alert to contamination, " said Patrick Hillman, 70, at AFP.
Skripal intoxication "That's a little scary," said John Reid, 84.
Police launched two lines of evidence. For those who are worried about the possible contamination. 19659003] "We can not underestimate the impact that will have the shocking news of a second major incident in this." part of our county in such a short period of time, "Wiltshire Police Chief Kier Pritchard said in a statement, Calm, but also said that anyone who visited any of the five sites that the man and the woman went to friday and saturday must wash the clothes worn at the time and wipe the personal items.
The sites, which have now been cordoned off, are a homeless park and hostel in Salisb A local resident, Natalie Smyth, 27, told AFP that she had seen fire trucks and ambulances arrive home on Saturday.
"They closed the road.
They said it was a chemical incident and then that it was drug related.
"It's so strange, it's such a quiet place," she said, indicating that emergency services personnel wore protective gear.
Police said local residents should expect to see police officers in protective gear in "a number of sites" in the coming days.
Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, 33, visiting Moscow
A policeman who came to their rescue, Nick Bailey, was also taken to the hospital.
Police stated that she suspected that the nerve agent could have been transported to the hospital. spread on an inlet door handle in liquid form.
Moscow rejected the British accusations of involvement in the Skripal poisoning, which sparked a diplomatic crisis that saw Russia and the West expel dozens of diplomats into the tit-for-tat movements. for-tat.
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