Word: chloropicrin
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...tube was about to stick together," she says. "I kept trying to clear my throat." When she saw her colleagues were also choking, she called the police. Last week, the Slovak Interior Ministry confirmed that Zvástová's post office had been attacked by a mixture of chloropicrin and phosgene, two chemicals used during World War I as choking agents. A second attack occurred at a bank in the same building four days later. In neither case was the toxic concentration high enough to cause permanent injury. But it was enough to put the government on the alert...