Ex-spy was exposed to 'nerve agent'

LONDON - Former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter are in a coma after exposure to a suspected nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury.

Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia were found unconscious on a bench at a shopping center on Monday. They were believed to have been exposed to a highly toxic chemical, according to Mark Rowley, the Metropolitan Police's counterterrorism chief.

"This is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by administration of a nerve agent," Rowley told reporters.