Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was killed by poison dart filled with ricin and fired from an umbrella in London in 1978. Markov, a communist defector working for the BBC World Service ...

thought to be from the Bulgarian secret service, who used an umbrella to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin. In 2013, letters tainted with ricin were sent to President Obama, the New York ...

He was assassinated at age 49 in London when a Bulgarian agent closely affiliated with the KGB stabbed Markov with an umbrella that had a ricin pellet attached to its tip. Ricin is still used by ...

The Bulgarian newspaper Dnevnik reported that British ... established he had been killed by a tiny pellet containing a 0.2mg dose of ricin. Markov, a playwright and satirist who had broadcast ...

March 19 (Reuters) - A Bulgarian national working for the United Nations died on Wednesday in the Gaza Strip, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said in a statement, citing preliminary information.