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Reuters: Suspects for Skripal Novichok poisoning identified, says UK

Published July 19, 2018 at 9:08 am

A police officer stands alongside a cordon of police tape at Queen Elizabeth Gardens in Salisbury, southern England, on July 7, 2018. The exposure of an apparently random British couple to the same nerve agent used against former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, in the same part of southwest England, has sent officials scrambling to discover the source of the contamination.

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U.K. investigators believe they have identified the suspected perpetrators behind the Novichok nerve agent attack on the Skripals, the Press Association reported on July 19.

Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were struck down with the poison in March. The Skripals subsequently recovered.