Salisbury Incident

[sunny-dave]

Very strange - the BBC report is short on information and high on paranoia :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-43289194

Actually, it just looks like it was someone being sick on a bench after taking fentanyl - but the over-the-top secrecy is just alarming people :

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/05/salisbury-hospital-police-fire-crews-attend-major-incident

[dannyk13]

On the ten o'clock news last night the substance had still not been identified,so why is everybody thinking that it was Fentanyl?

[Sqad]

danny...."everybody" isn't ...it's just Eddie.

[Spicerack]

Early reports suggested it was fentanyl.

[Mamyalynne]

I think as Dave mentioned it in passing in his OP it was bound to get picked up on - I certainly did.

[ladybirder]

It's mentioned in the Guardian link posted by the OP.

[ladybirder]

The first police officer on the scene is now seriously ill.

Latest news is we now know it was a nerve agent used and they tend to be used by States or sometimes terrorist groups! In case you hadn't guessed they were deliberately targeted. Hundreds of officers are now involved.

[dannyk13]

Latest news is that all three are now critical.Not looking good for them.

[emmie]

no it isn't, how can it be passed to the police officer i wonder.

[EDDIE51]

^ A 'nerve agent' is normally sprayed onto the victim. So just a minute particle of the spray would be enough to make anyone trying to help the victim ill. Just touching the victim is enough , nerve agents are spread by skin contact. Which is why the emergency services were wearing full BioHazard gear but the police officer was not.