UK police have confirmed that a woman exposed to the nerve agent Novichok last week has died.
Dawn Sturgess fell ill after apparently handling an item contaminated with the substance.
Now, health authorities are trying to calm residents in a community that has seen several military-grade poisonings in a matter of months.
Al Jazeera's Joao da Silva reports.
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