{"id":368064,"date":"2018-07-05T02:53:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T01:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-terror-police-drafted-in-as-two-exposed-to-mystery-substance\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T02:53:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T01:53:52","slug":"uk-terror-police-drafted-in-as-two-exposed-to-mystery-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-terror-police-drafted-in-as-two-exposed-to-mystery-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Terror Police Drafted in as Two Exposed to Mystery Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p><strong>Major incident declared in Wiltshire as man and woman left in critical condition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Counter-terrorism police are working with officers in Wiltshire, England who have declared a major incident after a couple were left in a critical condition having being exposed to a mystery substance.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, in their 40s, were found unconscious in a property in Muggleton Road, Amesbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It is around 13 kilometres from where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with a nerve agent in March, but it is not thought that the individuals are linked in any way to Russia or to the Skripals.<\/p>\n<p>Wiltshire Police initially thought that the couple had taken contaminated crack cocaine or heroin, but then decided to carry out further tests and on Wednesday declared a major incident.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that tests are being carried out on the substance at the Government chemical weapons research laboratory at Porton Down.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Police, who lead the national counter-terrorism network, said in a statement: \u201cGiven the recent events in Salisbury, officers from the counter-terrorism network are working jointly with colleagues from Wiltshire Police regarding the incident in Amesbury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Wiltshire Police have stated, they are keeping an open mind as to the circumstances surrounding the incident and will update the public as soon and as regularly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The man and woman from Amesbury are in a critical condition in Salisbury District&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/uk-terror-police-drafted-in-as-two-exposed-to-mystery-substance\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major incident declared in Wiltshire as man and woman left in critical condition Counter-terrorism police are working with officers in Wiltshire, England who have declared a major incident after a couple were left in a critical condition having being exposed to a mystery substance. The pair, in their 40s, were found unconscious in a property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-368064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}