UK police declare 'major incident' after 2 people found unconscious after possible exposure to 'unknown substance'

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• British police found a man and a woman, both in their 40s, in critical condition.
• Police say they may have been exposed to an unknown substance.
• Police initially thought they were exposed to crack cocaine or heroin from a batch of contaminated drugs. Further testing was ongoing.
• The two people were found in Amesbury, about seven miles where Russian former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, fell severely ill after being poisoned by nerve agent.

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British police declared a major incident late on Tuesday after it said a man and a woman in a critical condition may have been exposed to an unknown substance near the southern English town of Salisbury.

"Wiltshire Police and partners have this evening declared a major incident after it is suspected that two people might have been exposed to an unknown substance in Amesbury," the police said in a statement.

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