UK inquiry to announce findings into woman's 2018 Novichok poisoning

Police officers stand outside the street where Dawn Sturgess lived before dying after being exposed to a Novichok nerve agent, in Salisbury, Britain, July 19, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/File Photo

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A British public inquiry will deliver its findings on Thursday into the death of a woman who was unwittingly killed by the Novichok nerve agent following the attempted murder of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal seven years ago.

British authorities have blamed Russia for the attack on Skripal, who was found along with his daughter Yulia slumped unconscious on a public bench in the southern English city of Salisbury in March 2018 after Novichok was applied to the front door handle of his home.