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London.- The couple of a British drunk with Novichok on June 30 in Amesbury (south of England) should have entered contact with a "high dose" of the nervous agent, the British police said today
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Dawn Sturgess 44 years, dies last night as a result of poisoning, while his partner, Charlie Rowley 45 , continues to be admitted to the hospital in critical condition.
After the woman's death, the police opened an investigation into the facts as assassination and assured that she was working to identify and bring to justice those responsible for the murder. 39 incident
. The United Kingdom's anti-terrorism police, Neil Basu, today offered in public the latest details of investigations, in which more than a hundred detectives work.
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The death of Sturgess and the seriousness with which Rowley is found, reflect that the affected people received a "high dose" of Novichok when handling a container that is now being searched, Basu said.
Officers traced the man's house, where the couple began to feel unwell over the past 30 days, the woman at Salisbury (13 kilometers from Amesbury) and the Queen's Gardens Elizabeth, also located in this city, looking
Our priority now is to find and identify the container that we believe could be the source of the contamination, the officer said.
In the same vein, Basu said that a van in which Dawn was traveling before falling ill was transferred to the Chemical Weapons Research Laboratory at Porton Down, Wiltshire, to be analyzed.
They traveled with him in this vehicle and were contacted by the agents and none of them had symptoms of poisoning, said the officer
in this center of Porton Down where on July 4 the toxic substance was identified as Novichok, The same thing with which the former Russian spy Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned on March 4, Salisbury.
Basu reiterated today that the "main line of investigation" is considering the relationship between the two cases, though she adds: "investigations still can not confirm such a hypothesis.
As I said earlier, there is no evidence that the couple visited any of the places that were decontaminated after the Skripal attack, at least He underlines.
The British government blamed Russia The British Sajod Javid asked for explanations to this country after intoxication of the two British.
Overall, Javid assured yesterday that "there are no plans" to promote new sanctions against Russia, while the Kremlin with the event.
The Minister of the Interior will be chairing this afternoon a new meeting of the Cobra Emergency Committee which will be reported later to the British Parliament.
