Another Novichok Poisoning Has Britain Investigating a Dangerous Mystery
Authorities insist public risk remains low after civilians fell ill from exposure to a nerve agent.
Caution tape and teams of hazmat-clad forensic investigators returned to Britain this week after two civilians fell ill from exposure to Novichok, the same nerve agent used in the recent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the city of Salisbury. This time, the victims were not Russians, but a British couple. And unlike the first poisoning, which the U.K. accused the Russian government of orchestrating (a claim Moscow denies), there is no indication these victims were targeted on purpose.
British authorities confirmedmiles from where Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned last March. Like the Skripals, Rowley and Sturgess were found to have
