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(Scroll down for video) Workers at a car part factory were rushed to the hospital after they were poisoned, according to press reports in Germany.
Twenty five factory workers have been sent to the hospital after eating snacks that were laced with rat poison.
Workers at the Mueller-Technik, a company that produces auto parts in the northwestern city of Steinfeld, ate snacks that were left along with a thank you note at the front entrance and the side entrance of their building Tuesday morning, keeping up with a German tradition of giving bread.
Workers described the bread as old and dry before discovering the poison beneath the meat and cheese.
Emergency services were called immediately and 25 workers were sent to the hospital for observation in intensive care units, although none are yet to show signs of poisoning.
Contaminated bread samples were sent to a laboratory in Berlin, where it was confirmed that they contained small amounts of rat poison, but not enough to kill.
Police are saying that whoever left the sandwiches must have been familiar with the company and their routine of bringing food to work for other colleagues, but that the small amount of poison indicated that the perpetrator was likely someone with a grudge rather than with the intent to kill.
“People need to be very careful before consuming a questionable product. If these sandwiches had a little more poison it could have been fatal. I hope police hunt down the person behind this terrible attack against hard working citizens,” Amanda Daniels, 27, of Babenhausen, Germany told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the poison bread.
Helmut Kohanke, the CEO of Mueller-Technik, said a press conference that there had been no problems with employees recently and that no one had been fired.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view