DUBAI, (Reuters) – The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said yesterday.
Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed last month in his hotel room in what Dubai police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency.
The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillize Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website.
“The assassins used this method so that it would seem that his death was natural as there were no signs of resistance shown by the victim,” he said.
Dubai authorities have named 26 alleged members of the team that tracked and killed the Palestinian and said they operated in disguise and used fraudulent British, Irish, French, German and Australian passports.