UK counter-terrorism chief says two people in Wiltshire poisoned with Novichok nerve agent

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Police officers guard outside a branch of Boots pharmacy, which has been cordoned off after two people were hospitalised and police declared a ‘major incident’, in Amesbury, Wiltshire, Britain, July 4, 2018. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

AMESBURY, England (Reuters) – Britain’s counter-terrorism chief said on Wednesday that two people who are critically ill in hospital in Wiltshire were exposed to the Novichok nerve agent, the same toxin that was used in an attack on ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

The man and woman, both British, were found unwell at a house in Amesbury on Saturday, close to Salisbury where Skripal and his daughter were poisoned with nerve agent in March.

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