Nearly 200 British troops have been sent to the shopping mall where ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned

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• British troops were deployed to the Salisbury mall where an ex-Russian spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent.
• The military was called in to remove cars and objects from the scene that may be contaminated.
• UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd will chair an emergency Cobra meeting as the investigation into the source of the nerve agent continues.

Nearly 200 troops from the British Army, the Royal Air Force, and the Royal Marines were deployed on Friday to remove contaminated items from the shopping mall in Salisbury, England, where ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulina were poisoned by a nerve agent.

Skripal, 66, and his daughter, 33, remain in critical condition at Salisbury hospital after they were found unconscious on a bench on Sunday, March 4.

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