UK police say Russian ex-double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent UK counter terrorism police say an incident in which a Russian ex-spy and his daughter fell critically ill is being treated as attempted murder by a nerve agent.
Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench outside a shopping centre in Salisbury, a city in southern England.
"In summary, this is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent," Mark Rowley, the head of counter terrorism policing, said in a statement on Wednesday.
He declined to give details of the substance used.
"I can also confirm that we believe the two people originally who became unwell were targeted specifically," Rowley said.
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