It looks like the Skripal case: Two people in England exposed to an unknown substance are in critical condition

Two people were taken to a hospital in Salisbury, England, and are in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance a few kilometers from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious in March.

Patients are receiving treatment after being exposed to an unknown substance at Salisbury Hospital, the local police announced today and added that it was a serious incident.

A man and a woman in their 40s were found unconscious on Saturday, June 30, in front of a house in Amesbury in the south of England, about ten kilometers from Salisbury, where Skripal and his daughter were also found unconscious on March 4 after an attempt to poison them with a nerve agent. agent.

Police added that the patients, whose names have not been released, are in critical condition.

Local health services stated that the case does not pose a risk to the health of the population.

Sergei Skripal and his daughter were in critical condition in hospital for weeks after being poisoned with a nerve agent.

London then accused Moscow of being behind the poisoning, stating that the nerve gas developed in the USSR was used in the attack. Russia strongly rejected those accusations.

That affair caused a diplomatic crisis between London and British allies on the one hand and Russia on the other, as a large number of diplomats were expelled.