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Ex-Russian spy Skripal discharged from hospital after nerve agent attack

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Ex-Russian spy Skripal discharged from hospital after nerve agent attack

66-year-old former Russia spy Sergei Skripal has been discharged from a British hospital after a nerve agent attack in the UK which triggered a diplomatic crisis with Russia.

Both Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury on March 4 and were both in critical condition for weeks.

However the health condition of the pair began to improve weeks later with Yulia discharged last month while her father was allowed to go home on Friday.

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“It is fantastic news that Sergei Skripal is well enough to leave Salisbury District Hospital,” the hospital’s Chief Executive Cara Charles-Barks said in a statement.

“Treating people who are so acutely unwell, having been poisoned by nerve agents, requires stabilising them, keeping them alive until their bodies could produce more enzymes to replace those that had been poisoned,” the hospital statement read.

Recall that Russia denied any involvement in the poisoning of Skripal and his daughter which resulted in a diplomatic spat that witnessed a retaliation with the expulsion of Western diplomats.

 

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