According to Reuters, "A British woman has died after being exposed to the nerve agent Novichok in western England, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement on Sunday. The victim was named as Dawn Sturgess, aged 44. Police had been working to discover how she and a 45-year-old man had come across an item contaminated with Novichok." Similarly, Ex-Russian spy Segei Skripal and his daughter were attacked with the toxin Novichok four months ago.