The choice of a nerve agent in the latest case follows the use of the banned nerve agent VX to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader last year. It has overtones of a 2006 fatal attack on a former Russian spy that was blamed on the Kremlin. LONDON—A Russian ex-spy and his daughter fighting for their lives in an English hospital were attacked with a nerve agent in a targeted murder attempt, British police said Wednesday. The Russian government has denied any involvement in the attack on Skripal, a former Russian agent who had served jail time in his homeland for spying for Britain before being freed in a spy swap. Rowley didn’t say what nerve agent was suspected in the attack.

Source: thestar March 07, 2018 18:03 UTC