RFE/RL: British defense chief says Russian 'attack' led to woman's death - Jul. 09, 2018

RFE/RL: British defense chief says Russian ‘attack’ led to woman’s death

Police officers are seen standing guard outside a residential address in Amesbury, southern England, on July 5, 2018 where police reported a man and woman were found unconscious in circumstances that sparked a major incident after contact with what was later identified as the nerve agent Novichok.

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Britain’s defense chief has said that a Russian “attack” led to the death of a mother of three who was exposed to the same nerve agent that put former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the hospital, while the Kremlin said it would be “absurd” to blame Moscow.

The conflicting comments on July 9 came as more details emerged about the death of Dawn Sturgess, a 44-year-old mother of three, in southern England a day earlier following what police say was an unexplained exposure to the nerve agent Novichok.