Two people hospitalised in Salisbury after exposure to ‘unknown substance’
London — British police said Wednesday that two people are in a critical condition in a Salisbury hospital after being exposed to an "unknown substance", just a short distance from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned. The two patients "are both currently receiving treatment for suspected exposure to an unknown substance at Salisbury District Hospital", Wiltshire police said. "They are both in a critical condition," the police said, adding that they considered the situation a "major incident". The two people, a man and a woman both in their 40s, were discovered unconscious on Saturday June 30 at a house in the village of Amesbury, which is about 12km from Salisbury. Sergei and Yulia Skripal were found slumped on a bench in the city in southwestern England where the former double agent lived in March, sparking a bitter diplomatic crisis between Moscow and London, which says a Soviet-made nerve agent dubbed novichok was used on the pair. Wiltshire pol...
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