A couple rushed to hospital by paramedics dressed in hazmat suits were poisoned by the same nerve agent used against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, police confirmed.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, and her partner Charlie Rowley, 45, are fighting for life after they were exposed to the deadly Novichok substance in Amesbury on Saturday.
They were exposed just 300 yards from where Mr Skripal and his daughter Yulia ate on the day they were poisoned four months ago, and it was feared this could be leftover toxin from then.
Confirmation of the poisoning came hours after dramatic video emerged of one of the victims being loaded into an ambulance by a paramedic wearing hazmat gear.
Rowley was lying on his back in a stretcher as the paramedic in a white protective suit pushed it inside as two police officers watched on.