UK to address suspicions that Russia was behind nerve agent spy attack
Source: CNN
The British government will be forced on Thursday to address growing suspicions that Moscow may have been behind the attempted assassination of a former Russian spy in a southern English city.
Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who has responsibility for policing in Britain, will appear before Parliament after police declared that a nerve agent was used in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter.
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In a statement on Wednesday evening Mark Rowley, the head of the counter-terrorism division at London's Metropolitan police, declared a "major incident" and said hundreds of police officers, forensic experts and government chemical analysts were involved in the inquiry. Rowley said the attack was being treated as attempted murder, and that Skripal and his daughter were deliberately targeted.
If a Moscow link were proved, it would plunge relations between the West and Russia to a new low, and would call into question the British government's ability to protect residents of the UK at home. Rowley said officers from Wiltshire police, the local force, were providing support to the sick officer and his family.
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