I've been reading medical texts. I just can't find anything that indicates that overdoses of warfarin can result in sudden onset of serious bleeding.
Well, it had to be some blood thinner stuff, blood thinning either as a primary mode of action or as a secondary. Something particularly exotic along the lines of snake poison it cannot be for purely logistic reasons, and besides, these are for injection, not digestion.
And BTW, mass onset only indicates that the victims likely consumed the stuff at, or about, the same time. Nowhere is it following from that they had to consume it with their meal 2 hrs before the symptoms - given the Ramadan fast, they could have eaten it the evening before.
. I just can't find anything that indicates that overdoses of warfarin can result in sudden onset of serious bleeding.
I take warfarin. It takes awhile to build up to a desired level. A massive dose probably wouldn't do much immediately except perhaps induce vomiting. The drug wouldn't be an efficient way to poison hundreds as the dosage required would be massive and probably wouldn't work.
Some of this policemen fell over immediately after getting up from the meal.