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Police Close Salisbury Restaurant, Roads as Two People Fall Ill

Police Close Salisbury Restaurant, Roads as Two People Fall Ill

(Bloomberg) -- A restaurant in Salisbury in the U.K. was shut and surrounding streets were cordoned off after a man and a woman fell ill, Wiltshire police said in a statement posted on Twitter.

The city is where former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with a nerve agent in March.

Sky News said in a tweet that one of the people taken ill at the Prezzo restaurant is Russian.

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