Najib condemns Salisbury nerve agent attack

By Bernama
March 20, 2018 @ 11:36am

Members of the emergency services wearing protective coveralls and breathing equiptment, work alongside members of the British Army, as a vehicle, is loaded onto the back of a British Army lorry on the grounds of a cement plant in the village of Durrington, near Salisbury, southern England on March 19, 2018, as investigations in connection with an apparent nerve agent attack in the city on March 4 continue. The European Union offered "unqualified solidarity" with Britain on March 19 over a nerve agent attack blamed on Russia, as international weapons experts visited to take a sample of the chemical for testing. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian officer who sold secrets to Britain and moved there in a 2010 spy swap, remains in critical condition along with his daughter, Yulia, after they were found unconscious on a park bench on March 4. / AFP PHOTO / Ben STANSALLBEN STANSALL

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak strongly condemned the recent nerve agent attack on former Russian military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, at Salisbury, southwest of London.

“Having experienced a similar attack on our own soil, we strongly condemn the use of chemical weapons under any circumstances. #SalisburyAttack,” Najib said in his Twitter posting, today.

Sergei, a former Russian spy who became a double agent for Britain, and Yulia were found slumped on a bench outside a shopping mall in Salisbury on March 4. They remain in critical condition in a hospital.

British authorities concluded that Sergei and Yulia were poisoned with the nerve agent ‘Novichok’.

Similarly in Malaysia, Kim Chol or Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was murdered with VX on Feb 13, last year while waiting to board a flight to Macau at Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2.— BERNAMA

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