A senior Hamas military leader who was murdered in his Dubai hotel room last month, allegedly by Mossad agents, was drugged and then suffocated to death, police in the emirate said on Sunday. "The killers used the drug succinylcholine to sedate (Mahmoud) al-Mabhouh before they suffocated him," a statement quoted Major General Khamis Mattar al-Mazeina, deputy commander of Dubai police, as saying.
"The assassins used this method so that it would seem that his death was natural," the statement said, adding that "there were no signs of resistance shown by the victim."
Succinylcholine is used to induce muscle relaxation and is favoured by anaesthetists and emergency doctors because of its fast onset.
