Latest UK nerve agent poisoning appears accidental
Two people are still in critical condition, after handling a contaminated object — raising the prospect of further incidents
Salisbury — On Friday, UK police raced to find the object that contaminated a British couple with the Soviet-designed Novichok nerve agent in south-western England where a former Russian spy was poisoned with the same toxin four months ago. Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fell ill on Saturday in Amesbury, a small town near the city of Salisbury where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed on March 4, spreading fear among locals once again. Police said they had established that the couple, who remain in a critical condition in hospital, were exposed to the nerve agent after "handling a contaminated item". They also did not rule out the possibility of more people coming into contact with the poison, which they suspect may have been left over from the attempted murder on the Skripals, although police have yet to determine whether it was the same batch. "It is rather scary," a local resident told AFP, as he walked by the canal. "It is an agent, it is not a gun or a knife that ...
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