Police in Britain announced Thursday that 19 people who may have been exposed to the nerve agent used in an attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter have received medical treatment.
On Sunday, Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on a bench near a mall in Salisbury. Kier Pritchard, the acting Wiltshire police chief, said one officer who went to help the victims, Sgt. Nick Bailey, is sick in the hospital, but is slowly making some progress. "Of course he's very anxious, very concerned," he told reporters. He said that other people who were at the scene have had blood tests and gone to the hospital, but would not say if they were police officers, medical workers, or bystanders, NBC News reports.
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