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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Steven Morris

Salisbury poisoning inquiry: nurse describes coming to aid of Sergei Skripal

Yulia and Sergei Skripal
Yulia and Sergei Skripal. The inquiry is examining the death by novichok poisoning of Dawn Sturgess. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

A senior army nurse who came to the aid of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal after he was poisoned with a nerve agent has described how he was “chanting” unintelligibly.

Skripal was half-raising his hand in the air and vomiting while the hand of his daughter, Yulia, was clamped in a “claw” – and at one point she had stopped breathing.

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