OPCW chief rejects Russia claim of 2nd Salisbury nerve agent

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OPCW chief rejects Russia claim of 2nd Salisbury nerve agent

    By mike corder, associated press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Apr 18, 2018

 The head of the global chemical watchdog agency has rejected Russian claims that traces of a second nerve agent were discovered in the English city where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned.

Britain blames Russia for the attack, which it says was carried out by smearing a Soviet-developed nerve agent known as Novichok on a door handle at Sergei Skripal's house in Salisbury. Moscow denies involvement.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Saturday that Moscow received confidential information from the laboratory in Spiez, Switzerland, that analyzed samples from the site of the March 4 poisoning in Salisbury.

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