Britain demands Russia answer for new nerve agent attack

The British government demanded answers from Russia Thursday about another poisoning that involved the same nerve agent that sickened a former Moscow double-agent and his adult daughter this year.


The poisoned couple, Charlie Rowley, 45, and Dawn Sturgess, 44, were found unconscious at a house in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday, BBC News reported -- about 10 miles from where Sergei Skripal, a former Russian spy who later went to work for the British government, and daughter Yulia were poisoned.

The Skripals survived their attacks after weeks of hospitalization. Rowley and Sturgess are still being treated.

In both cases, the poison believed to have been used is a Novichok agent, a group of chemical weapon substances developed by the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
  (upi)
 5/7/18