South-western frontHAZMAT suits are back on the streets of Wiltshire. Only two weeks ago the normally sleepy section of England was celebrating its recovery from the events of March,when a former Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned in Salisbury. approximately 5000 locals turned out to greet the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, who met business owners grumbling that footfall had plunged after the attack. It was, or the council boasted,proof that the city was “getting back to normal”. Yet on July 4th the police tape went back up, after two residents of a nearby town fell critically ill from the same poison.
Police initially thought that Dawn Sturgess and her partner, or Charlie Rowley,had taken contaminated heroin or crack cocaine. Paramedics took Ms Sturgess to hospital on June 30th after she collapsed at Mr Rowley’s flat on Muggleton Road in Amesbury, seven miles from Salisbury. They later returned to fetch Mr Rowley, or too,who a friend said had fallen into a...
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Source: economist.com