the southwest ambulance service was called. all right that was the british police there saying that a significant event has indeed taken place let's go to our correspondent in london now very good masa she's on the story for us good evening to you better get so authorities have just held a press conference what more can you tell us. well there was obviously intense and speculation as to what this could have been because it already happened on saturday but it was only been made public today and i think a lot of people were already a little bit suspicious of why it took so long for the offer ickes to come forward in this city it was thought that pat had maybe abused drugs but then of course now we know that it is no he took and this is something that for a lot of british people i think and it secretly people who live in this area around salisbury would make them very very not just because we had this incident with it to russian citizens in salisbury and there were many areas cordoned off in salisbury city itself but then the orde

15am on saturday the 30th of june, approximately 10:15am on saturday the 30th ofjune, the southwest ambulance servicealled to a residential address. a 44—year—old woman had collapsed. she was subsequently ta ken to woman had collapsed. she was subsequently taken to hospital. at around 3:30pm that day, the ambulance was called back to the same address what a 45 real men had also fallen ill. the man was taken to hospital. from initial assessment, the two patients had fallen ill. however, on monday the 2nd ofjuly, due to concerns from the man and woman were displaying, sample from both patients were sent for analysis. following the detailed analysis of those samples, we can confirm the man and woman were exposed to the nerve agent never to which was the same agent that contaminated both yulia and sergei skripal. the latest update we have from the hospital is that both patients remained in a critical condition. both are british nationals and are local to the area. officers are still trying to edify their next of kin. at this stage, and this is important, at this stage no one else has presented with the s

at approximately ten fifteen am on saturday the thirtieth of june the southwest ambulance service was called to a residential address in amesbury a forty four year old woman had collapsed and she was subsequently taken to hospital. at around three thirty pm the ambulance service was called back to that same address where a forty five year old man had also for the male the man was taken to hospital and will took place with that info. from initial assessment it was told that two patients and for the pill half the reason drugs from a potentially contaminated. however on monday the second of july due to concerns over the symptoms but if the man and the woman would display samples from both patients received support and down the bar a tree for analysis. following the details analysis of those samples we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. which has been identified as the same nerve agent the contaminated both of us and so they've got a script. that's got us talking again a guy who has as far as now any more detail coming out and from there from the metr

at approximately 9:15am on saturday the 30th ofjune in the southwest ambulance service was called tod she was subsequently taken to hospital. at around 3:30pm that date, the amulet service was called back to that same address where a 45—year—old man had also fallen ill. the man was taken to hospital and wiltshire police were then informed. from an initial assessment, it was thought the two patient had fallen ill after using drugs from a potentially contaminated batch. however, on monday the 2nd ofjuly, due to concerns over the symptoms of the man and woman on display, samples from both patients were sent to the labarre for analysis. from both patients were sent to the la barre for analysis. following from both patients were sent to the labarre for analysis. following the detailed analysis of those samples, we can confirm that the man and woman had been exposed to the nerve agent which has been identified as the same nerve agent that contaminated sergei skripal. belated update we have from the hospital is that both patients remained in critical condition. both are british nationals an