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Toxic Gas Released in Bulgarian Police Office
An attack involving the use of chloro-picrine gas in a traffic police office in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia today left more than 40 people hospitalized, one with life-threatening injuries, according to the Bulgarian News Network (see GSN, Feb. 5, 2003).
The Bulgarian Health Ministry said that chloro-picrine, an obsolete chemical weapon-grade tear gas, can cause damage to the eyes and suffocation. Police identified the man who released the gas and are searching for him, BNN reported (BNN, April 9).
