The Salisbury poisonings five years on
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The Nerve Agent Crisis
Sargay Scripal and his daughter were poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia. This is part of a group of nerve agents known as Novichok. The fact that it's been used in a city like Sol'sbury in peacetime is extraordinary. With this incident, all you could do was follow the science. We don't know all the facts at this stage, but what we do is do our absolute best with the information we've got at any given time.
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