UK: Russia targeting British people with nerve agents

By Joel Gehrke

Published July 5, 2018 3:54pm ET

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UK: Russia targeting British people with nerve agents — British police officers guards a cordon outside the Amesbury Baptist Centre church in Amesbury, England, Wednesday, July 4, 2018. British police have declared a "major incident" after two people were exposed to an unknown substance in the town, and are cordoning off places the people are known to have visited before falling ill. | (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Russia is making the British people “targets” for a individualized chemical weapons attacks, a senior British official alleged following the second poisoning incident of the year.

“It is unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets, or for our streets, our parks, our towns to be dumping grounds for poison,” Sajid Javid, the United Kingdom’s home secretary, told Parliament.

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