(UTV|COLOMBO) – Two people found unconscious in Southern England on Saturday (30) were exposed to the same nerve agent used to attack an ex-Russian spy in March, London Metropolitan Police quoted by CNN on Wednesday (04).
The pair remain in critical condition in Salisbury District Hospital, the same hospital where former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were treated after they were exposed to Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent. The United Kingdom (UK) Government suspects the Skripals were victims of a Russian attack.
The UK’s National Counter Terrorism Policing Network is leading the investigation. Officers are investigating the possibility of a connection between the two attacks, said Neil Basu, Assistant Commissioner for Counter Terrorism at London Metropolitan Police. But no evidence so far suggests the couple was specifically targeted, he said.
“I don’t have any intelligence or evidence that they were targeted in any way. There is nothing in their background to suggest that at all,” Assistant Commissioner Basu said.
“We are not in a position to say whether the nerve agent was from the same batch that the Skripals were exposed to. The possibility that these two investigations might be linked is clearly a line of inquiry for us.”
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