UK police identify over 200 witnesses in nerve agent attack
By Reuters
11 March 2018 |
11:00 am
British interior minister Amber Rudd says police have identified more than 200 witnesses and are examining more than 240 pieces of evidence in the investigation into a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter.
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