Customer dies after drinking cleaning fluid served in error
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 @ 11:21 AM
A BAR customer has died after drinking cleaning fluid served to him by mistake when he ordered a glass of wine.
Emergency services were called out to the undisclosed premises in Benicarló (Castellón province) at around 14.50hrs on Sunday after the owner discovered his error.
A toxic and highly-corrosive cleaning product had been decanted into an empty wine bottle and put in the fridge by mistake and, when the customer asked for a glass of wine, the acidic fluid was poured out without either the bar owner or the victim realising until it was too late.
The customer was rushed to the district hospital in Vinaròs in a serious condition, but died shortly afterwards from serious internal burns.
Guardia Civil officers arrested the owner of the premises in the Plaza Isabel de Villena and charged him with negligent homicide.
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