Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with nerve agent, say counter terror police

 

Skripal was pictured picking up scratch cards and groceries (ITV)

Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a nerve agent, according to counter-terror police.

The incident is being investigated as attempted murder and Skripal and his daughter had been ‘targeted specifically’, said head of counter-terrorism policing, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley.

Police declined to specify the nerve agent or how it was administered.

Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia are fighting for their lives in hospital days after being found slumped on a bench in Salisbury, Wiltshire.

A police officer who was among the first on the scene is also in a serious condition and his family are being supported, Mr Rowley said.

’Having established that a nerve agent was the cause of the symptoms, leading us to treat this as attempted murder, I can also confirm that the we believe the two people who originally became unwell were targeted specifically.

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