2018 Amesbury poisonings

2018 Amesbury poisonings
2018 Amesbury poisonings
Location	Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
Date	30 June 2018
Weapons	A-234 (suspected chemical weapon used)
Deaths	Dawn Sturgess; (8 July 2018, aged 44, after being admitted to hospital)
Injured	Charlie Rowley; (45; admitted to hospital; discharged 20 July 2018)
Coroner	HM Coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon

On 30 June 2018, in Amesbury, two British nationals, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were admitted to Salisbury District Hospital in Wiltshire, England. Police determined that they were poisoned by a Novichok nerve agent of the same kind used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, 8 miles (13 km) away, almost four months prior.^[1]^[2]^[3] Sturgess died on 8 July, and Rowley regained consciousness two days later.

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