In Salisbury reported on the new poisoning nerve substance
LONDON, Aug 7 — RIA Novosti, Maria Tobacco. Police officer hospitalized in Britain with suspicion on poisoning with nerve substance, said Saturday night hospital English town of Salisbury.
On the morning of 4 July, the British police have reported a “serious incident” in nearby Salisbury and Amesbury, where two people “were under the influence of an unknown substance” and was hospitalized in critical condition. Later, the head of the counter-terrorism unit of Scotland Yard Neil Basu confirmed that the man and woman in Amesbury was poisoned by the same substance that worked for the British security services of ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. Amesbury is located near Salisbury. Victims of Amesbury are being treated in hospital in Salisbury, where he was treated and Skrypali. London accuses Russia of poisoning Skrobala, Moscow categorically denies it.
“The police tonight appealed to the Great Western Hospital (Swindon town — ed.), medical consultation in connection with investigations in Amesbury incident. Nothing suggests that there is a risk to anyone else in the hospital,” — reads the statement of the representative of the hospital.
“Currently, this person transferred to the district hospital, Salisbury, with the opportunity to undertake the necessary specialized tests. Hospital in Salisbury has taken a number of people who came after the incident with questions about health, but none of them treatment was not required,” reads the statement.
A hospital spokesman stressed that, according to the office for the protection of the public health risk for the residents of Salisbury and Amesbury remains low.