Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley in critical condition as Porton Down runs tests

Scientists at the government’s Porton Down defence laboratory were carrying out tests on Wednesday night to try to establish if a couple had been exposed to a nerve agent in Wiltshire.

A park in Salisbury five minutes’ walk from the bench where the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia collapsed after a suspected Russian attack employing a nerve agent was one of at least seven areas cordoned off in the cathedral city and the nearby town of Amesbury.

Amesbury incident - police cordon at the baptist church. pic.twitter.com/JRzIBH2Lu2

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