Russian spy attack: British troops deployed to assist nerve agent probe

[deminks]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/09/europe/russian-spy-nerve-agent-british-troops-intl/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cnn%2FnGll+%28CNN.com+-+Top+Stories%29

Around 180 British troops have been deployed to the English city of Salisbury to aid in the investigation of a nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter.

Personnel from the Royal Air Force, British Army and Royal Navy were among those sent to Salisbury on Friday, a Ministry of Defence spokesman told CNN.

London's Metropolitan Police tweeted that the public should not be alarmed and the public health advice remained the same. It explained that the counterterrorism division had requested assistance from the military to "remove a number of vehicles and objects from the scene."

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Police say they know the nerve agent used in the attack, but have declined to say what it was or how they suspect it was administered. They called on anyone who visited the area on Sunday, including a branch of the Zizzi restaurant chain or the nearby Bishop's Mill pub, to come forward with any information that might help them piece together what happened.

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[hlthe2b]

1. I wonder how long it will take to confirm or exclude his deceased wife and son may have

been (unknowingly) exposed to something as well. I know the exhumations have already occurred.

[Iliyah]

2. If someone through another country's bidding

can set off killing gases (material) into the public that's scary and as we already know it can happen here in the USA.

Syria is using it against their own people. Where is our so called government with concerns. Yeah right, drop bombs.