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Monday 12 March 2018

Contamination in ex-spy case ups pressure on UK to act

By GREGORY KATZ if a foreign government is
JO KEARNEY found to be responsible.
Associated Press Britain would “respond ap-
SALISBURY, England (AP) propriately” in that case,
— The health implications Hammond said.
of the nerve agent attack The government has not
on a Russian ex-spy and his yet named the nerve agent
adult daughter broadened used or signaled that the
Sunday when British offi- evidence collected so far
cials conceded that limit- suggests that another gov-
ed traces of contamination ernment is to blame.
were found in a restaurant The widow of another Rus-
and a pub in Salisbury, a sian former spy who was
city in England. poisoned in England and
Public health officials said spent three weeks hospi-
the risk of others being talized before he died told
sickened by the chemi- the BBC Sunday that Brit-
cals that put the father ish officials have not made
and daughter in critical good on a written promise
condition a week ago was to take every possible step
very low. But they advised to prevent crimes like the
people who had patron- killing of her husband, Alex-
ized the businesses during ander Litvinenko.
a two-day period to wash Forensic officers work at the cemetery in Salisbury, England, Saturday March 10, 2018, as “It means something was
their clothes, double-bag investigations continue at the cemetery where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal’s wife not done,” Marina Litvinen-
articles for dry cleaning, Liudmila and son Alexander are laid to rest. Emergency service personnel and troops trained in ko said of the attack on
and to wipe down items chemical warfare were deployed on the streets of Salisbury as investigations continue into the Skripal.
like jewelry. nerve-agent poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter. “And the lesson that we
“It’s really important to (PA via AP) received after the murder
understand the general daughter, Yulia 33 were Harries said. action against whoever is of my husband was not
public should not be con- found comatose on a The public health concerns deemed responsible for the learned.”
cerned. There is, on the evi- bench near Zizzi restaurant — and the seven days it rare nerve agent attack. She said Prime Minister The-
dence currently, a very low and The Mill pub on March took authorities to give in- Treasury chief Philip Ham- resa May signed the agree-
risk.” Dr. Jenny Harries of 4. Several hundred people structions for reducing pos- mond added his voice Sun- ment in her earlier capacity
Public Health England said would have been in the sible exposure risks — are day to the chorus of senior overseeing domestic secu-
during a news conference. Salisbury establishments increasing pressure on the British figures vowing that rity as Britain’s home secre-
Sergei Skripal, 66, and his that day and the day after, British government to take strong steps will be taken tary. q
Plane flying from UAE to Turkey crashes in Iran, killing 11

By AMIR VAHDAT on the plane when it went gros Mountains and found rapidly gained altitude and Dubai. Turkey’s private
JON GAMBRELL down. Iranian state televi- only badly burned bodies then dropped drastically Dogan News Agency iden-
Associated Press sion quoted a spokesman and no survivors. He said within minutes, according tified the plane as a Bom-
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A Turk- for the country’s emergen- DNA tests would be need- to FlightRadar24, a flight- bardier CL604, tail number
ish private jet flying a group cy management organiza- ed to identify the dead. tracking website. TC-TRB. Turkey’s Transport
of young women from the tion as saying the plane hit Villagers said they saw The flight took off from Shar- Ministry said the aircraft
United Arab Emirates to Is- a mountain near Shahr-e flames coming from the jah International Airport, belonged to a company
tanbul crashed Sunday in Kord and burst into flames. plane’s engine before the according to the General named Basaran Holding,
heavy rain in a mountain- Shahr-e Kord is some 370 crash, according to a re- Civil Aviation Authority in which The Associated Press
ous region of Iran, killing all kilometers (230 miles) south port by Iran’s state-run judi- the UAE. A private com- could not immediately
11 people on board, au- of the capital, Tehran. ciary news agency Mizan. pany that handles public reach. Basaran Investment
thorities said. Days earlier, The spokesman, Mojtaba The plane took off late relations for the Sharjah air- Holding is active in the
the doomed aircraft car- Khaledi, later told a web- Sunday afternoon and field, the home of low-cost food, finance, energy, con-
ried a bachelorette party site associated with state climbed to a cruising alti- airline Air Arabia, declined struction, tourism and travel
bound for Dubai, although TV that local villagers had tude of just over 35,000 feet. to comment. Sharjah is a industries, according to the
it was not clear who was reached the site in the Za- A little over an hour later, it neighboring emirate of company’s website.q