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Reuters: UK has not yet identified Skripal poisoning suspects

Published May 1, 2018 at 4:05 pm

A protective forensics tent covers a bench in a park at The Maltings shopping centre in Salisbury, southern England on March 19, 2018, as investigations in connection with an apparent nerve agent attack in the city on March 4 continue.

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LONDON – Britain has not identified the suspects who carried out the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal but is stepping up protection for other defectors who might also be at risk, the UK’s national security adviser said on May 1.