Police still do not know how a UK woman was exposed to Novichok
Following the woman’s death, police confirmed that a link between the Amesbury case in March and the Salisbury attack was a main line of inquiry
Salisbury — British police rushed to solve a murder mystery on Monday after a woman died following exposure to the nerve agent Novichok, four months after the same toxin was used against a former Russian spy in an attack that the UK blamed on Moscow. Prime Minister Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by the death of Dawn Sturgess, who had been living in a homeless hostel in Salisbury in southwest England. Sturgess and Charlie Rowley fell ill last weekend in the town of Amesbury, near Salisbury, the city where former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with the Novichok nerve agent in March and have since recovered. Local MP John Glen said the local community was "anxious" after police opened a murder inquiry, although health officials have said the danger to the general public is low. Glen told BBC radio the two may have handled a contaminated object because of their "habit of looking into bins" and police were trying to work out "how they ca...
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