Editing Georgi Markov (section)

=== Similar attacks ===
On 11 May 2012, a German man died almost a year after having been stabbed with an umbrella in the city of [[Hanover]]. German police – who noted a resemblance to the Markov case – analyzed the syringe which the victim had managed to take from the perpetrator, and found [[dimethylmercury]];<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-25 |title=Namen genannt! Wird der Regenschirm-Mord an Familienvater Christoph (†40) endlich gelöst? |url=https://www.tag24.de/unterhaltung/tv/aktenzeichen-xy/namen-genannt-wird-der-regenschirm-mord-an-familienvater-christoph-40-endlich-geloest-2592039 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220825122815/https://www.tag24.de/unterhaltung/tv/aktenzeichen-xy/namen-genannt-wird-der-regenschirm-mord-an-familienvater-christoph-40-endlich-geloest-2592039 |archive-date=2022-08-25 |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=TAG24 |language=de}}</ref> the reported cause of death was [[mercury poisoning]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Albers |first1=Anne |last2=Gies |first2=Ursula |last3=Raatschen |first3=Hans-Jurgen |last4=Klintschar |first4=Michael |date=2020-09-01 |title=Another umbrella murder? – A rare case of Minamata disease |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-020-00247-y |journal=Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology |language=en |volume=16 |issue=3 |pages=504–509 |doi=10.1007/s12024-020-00247-y |issn=1556-2891 |pmc=7449996 |pmid=32323188}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thelocal.de/20120511/42495/ |title=Umbrella stab victim dies of mercury poisoning |language=en |date=11 May 2012 |website=www.thelocal.de |access-date=13 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/quecksilbervergiftung-mann-stirbt-nach-angrif-mit-spritze-in-hannover-a-832677.html |title=Quecksilbervergiftung |trans-title=Mercury poisoning |magazine=[[Der Spiegel]] |language=de |date=11 May 2012 |access-date=3 September 2020}}</ref>

In 2016, police in [[Chennai]], India solved three separate murders when the four killers confessed to having used an umbrella tipped with a [[potassium cyanide]]-filled syringe. They had ridden past the victims on a bike and jabbed them in the thigh.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |last3= |first3= |date=2016-04-28 |title=How cops found, arrested an 'umbrella murderer' |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/how-cops-found-arrested-an-umbrella-murderer/articleshow/52017965.cms |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Narayanan |first=Vivek |date=2016-05-08 |title=Syringe murders: Three bodies to be exhumed |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/syringe-murders-three-bodies-to-be-exhumed/article8574928.ece |access-date=2022-08-25 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>