Salisbury medical incident: Police cordon off roads after two people fall ill near Skripal poisoning

Source: Independent (UK)

Police have cordoned off part of Salisbury after a man and a woman - reportedly two Russians - were taken ill in an Italian restaurant not far from where Sergei and Yulia Skripal fell unwell after being poisoned with novichok.

A witness claimed the pair affected were showing the same symptoms as the Skripals.

Wiltshire police said they had been called to Prezzo in the city by ambulance crews and that as a precaution, the restaurant and surrounding roads were cordoned off.

They could not confirm that the couple affected were Russian.

Amanda Worne said on Twitter: "Feeling a little apprehensive as Salisbury leaps to action again when 2 Russians are taken ill in Prezzos showing the same symptoms as before ..... AND WE WERE SITTING NEXT TO THEM! "Now under police supervision waiting for medical team to give us the all clear!"

Prezzo is in the city's High Street, just a few hundred yards from Zizzi, where the Skripals became ill after the nerve agent was put on the front-door handle of his home on 4 March.

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