'died noisily'

"At 3:00 a.m. on August 31, planes were heard overhead, and moments later canisters of supplies and weapons began drifting down to the drop zone, followed by Franks and his men.  Then pandemonium erupted.  One canister filled with ammunition exploded as it hit the ground.  The maquis [French resistance] began looting the supplies before teh SAS men [British special operations] had even landed.  In the confusion, the captive Fouch seized a Sten gun and rushed off.  The Russians, who spoke some German but not French, shouted 'Achtung!'  The French, hearing German voices in the darkness, assumed they must be under attack and began shooting wildly.  The looters meanwhile were gorging themselves, 'One Frenchman died of over-eating,' Druce recorded.  Another of the maquis extracted what the took to be a hunk of soft cheese from one of the containers and devoured it, only to discover it was plastic explosive, which contains arsenic.  He then 'died noisily.'"

-- Ben Macintyre, Rogue Heroes