Police: Victims of poisoning in Aimsbury suffered from "newcomer"

Two inhabitants of the English city of Eimsbury, the county of Wiltshire, found on Saturday unconscious with sipmtomas of poisoning, suffered from the poison of a "novice" of Russian production. According to the Scotland Yard website, experts of a military laboratory in Porton Dawn came to such conclusions.

The same poison was applied against ex-colonel GRU Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia.

Now both victims - 45 -year -old Charlie Rowley and 44 -year -old Don Styurzes, both British subjects - in critical condition.

According to Sky News, the Minister of the Upon Safety of Britain Ben Wallace said that the police did not consider the poisoning of the spouses a purposeful attempt. "The work line of the investigation says that they were not related to the Skripals. It was not an attempt - this, I think, is the distribution of a" newcomer, "the official said.

The investigation is conducted by about 100 employees of the counter -terrorist police unit. Now law enforcement officers are trying to establish exactly how Rowley and Styurzes come into contact with a poisonous substance.

On Saturday morning, Steurzes fainted and was hospitalized with symptoms of severe poisoning. A few hours later, Rowley also became bad. According to his friend, sweat rolled with Rowley Grad, he began to hallucinate. Initially, doctors believed that the victims were poisoned by a severe drug.

Now patients are in the district hospital in Salisbury, where they were treated after the March assassination attempt.

Rowley and Steurzes are not reported about the occupation. The same friend said that they lived together for several months, at the time of poisoning both were without work; Both have children.

Skripal, convicted in Russia for the state treason, and subsequently sent to the West as part of the "spy exchange", and his daughter, who came to his father from Moscow, were poisoned on March 4. Both have been in critical condition for several weeks, but in the end they went recovering and were discharged from the hospital. With less dangerous poisoning, a policeman, who studied the place where the Skripals were discovered unconscious, got into the hospital.

As it turned out, the former agent and his daughter were poisoned by the nervous poison "Novice" developed in the USSR. The conclusions of the British chemists were confirmed by the organization to prohibit chemical weapons. London accused the Russian authorities of a crime . However, Moscow categorically denies its involvement in the poisoning of the Skripals.