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On 30 June 2018, in Amesbury, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire, England.Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent of the same kind used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, 8 miles (13 km) away, almost four months prior.
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Former head of UK counter-terrorism policing, Neil Basu, was speaking as an inquiry into how Dawn Sturgess was fatally poisoned six years ago continues
The poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, also known as the Salisbury Poisonings, was a botched assassination attempt to poison Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military officer and double agent for the British intelligence agencies in the city of Salisbury, England on 4 March 2018.
Labour said on Sunday that the MP had been suspended ‘pending an investigation’ into the incident.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in hospital on Sunday evening after falling ill in Amesbury, Wiltshire, last Saturday.
In the twenty-first century, Novichok agents came to public attention after they were used to poison opponents of the Russian government, including the Skripals and two others in Amesbury, UK (2018), as well as Alexei Navalny (2020), but Russian civil poisonings with this substance have been known since at least 1995.
A ban on litter-picking in Salisbury has been lifted - seven years after the Novichok poisonings. The UK Health Security Agency said there is now "negligible to low risk" for those who pick up ...