London declares Russia has no involvement in Amesbury incident
According to preliminary data, Russia is not involved in the poisoning in Amesbury, British Home Secretary Ben Wallace said.
Two British nationals, a 44-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, were found unconscious at a house in Amesbury yesterday, police said. They are now in a critical condition in Salisbury Hospital, the same hospital where former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter were treated.
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Scotland Yard has said the man and woman were poisoned with the same substance used in the Skripal attack in Salisbury. Police have not yet established how they were poisoned. They did not visit any of the locations in Salisbury where the Skripal family were.
The investigation is still ongoing, with around 100 experts from various counter-terrorism units involved. The UK's chief medical officer, Sally Davis, said the risk of exposure to the substance the two men suffered was low, but caution was needed.
Amesbury is not far from Salisbury, where on March 4, former spy colonel Skripal, who worked for the British intelligence agency, and his daughter Julia were poisoned.
