LONDON: British police on Thursday released more video footage of the two suspects they believe poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury in March.
Two men — known by the aliases Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov — were charged in absentia for the attack in September.
Investigative website Bellingcat has named them as Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin and Anatoliy Chepiga, both of whom work for Russia’s GRU intelligence services.
Police realized video footage of two men arriving and moving around Salisbury on Sunday March 4, the day the Skripals were found slumped in the center of the English city.
A man and a woman were poisoned in the nearby town of Amesbury on June 30 after police believe they handled a perfume bottle that contained Novichok, a military-grade nerve agent developed by the Soviet Union used in the Skripal poisoning. The woman, Dawn Sturgess, died.
Police said they were appealing for more information from anybody who may have seen the two men in Britain between 2-4 March or had seen the counterfeit ‘Nina Ricci’ perfume box or bottle.
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British police release video of Skripal poisoning suspects
British police release video of Skripal poisoning suspects
- Investigative website Bellingcat has named them as Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin and Anatoliy Chepiga, both of whom work for Russia’s GRU intelligence services
Recovery of New Zealand landslide victims halted on safety concerns
- Six people, including two teenagers, are presumed dead after heavy rains triggered Thursday’s landslide at Mount Maunganui
- Authorities have been working to identify the victims after human remains were found at the site on Saturday
SYDNEY: New Zealand authorities suspended recovery efforts on Sunday for victims of a landslide that hit a busy campground on the country’s North Island.
Six people, including two teenagers, are presumed dead after heavy rains triggered Thursday’s landslide at Mount Maunganui on the island’s east coast, bringing down soil and rubble at the site in the city of Tauranga, crowded with families on summer holidays.
Authorities have been working to identify the victims after human remains were found at the site on Saturday.
But a crack found at the site prompted recovery work to cease for the day on Sunday, said police Superintendent Tim Anderson.
“As a result of that, we’ve had to pull all our staff out,” Anderson told reporters at Mount Maunganui, adding, “We’ve had to do that for the safety of everyone concerned.”
He did not specify when work would resume, saying the authorities were taking it “day by day at the moment.”
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Saturday it was “devastating to receive the news we have all been dreading,” after the rescue operation shifted to recovery.
“To the families who have lost loved ones — every New Zealander is grieving with you,” Luxon posted on X.
The heavy rain this week unleashed another landslide in the neighboring suburb of Papamoa, killing two.
Six people, including two teenagers, are presumed dead after heavy rains triggered Thursday’s landslide at Mount Maunganui on the island’s east coast, bringing down soil and rubble at the site in the city of Tauranga, crowded with families on summer holidays.
Authorities have been working to identify the victims after human remains were found at the site on Saturday.
But a crack found at the site prompted recovery work to cease for the day on Sunday, said police Superintendent Tim Anderson.
“As a result of that, we’ve had to pull all our staff out,” Anderson told reporters at Mount Maunganui, adding, “We’ve had to do that for the safety of everyone concerned.”
He did not specify when work would resume, saying the authorities were taking it “day by day at the moment.”
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said on Saturday it was “devastating to receive the news we have all been dreading,” after the rescue operation shifted to recovery.
“To the families who have lost loved ones — every New Zealander is grieving with you,” Luxon posted on X.
The heavy rain this week unleashed another landslide in the neighboring suburb of Papamoa, killing two.
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