UK found nerve agent allegedly used to poison British woman: report

Source: The Hill | July 13, 2018 | John Bowden

British police say they’ve located the source of the nerve agent used to poison two British citizens earlier this month, killing one of them and hospitalizing the other, Reuters reported on Friday.

The British police said they had located a “small bottle” containing the nerve agent during a search of the home of one victim, Charlie Rowley of Amesbury, according to the Reuters report. Rowley remains hospitalized, while his partner, Dawn Sturgess, died earlier this month.

“On Wednesday… a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowley’s house in Amesbury,” British counter-terror police was quoted as saying by Reuters. “Scientists have now confirmed to us that the substance contained within the bottle is Novichok.”

Amesbury is a few miles away from Salisbury, the town in which a former Russian spy and his daughter were found poisoned earlier this year, in an incident that tarnished relations between the U.K. and Russia.

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