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The Guardian: UK woman dies after being exposed to nerve agent Novichok

Published July 9, 2018 at 9:19 am

A pedestrian walks past a newsagent shop, one of the last places visited by 44-year old Dawn Sturgess before she fell ill on June 30, in Salisbury, southern England, on July 6, 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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A woman who was exposed to the nerve agent novichok in Amesbury, Wiltshire, has died in hospital.

The Metropolitan police have launched a murder investigation after Dawn Sturgess, 44, from Durrington, died on July 8 after handling an item contaminated with the nerve agent on 30 June.