Source: The Local
12 Aug 12
Swedish
police have issue a warning to the public after a man died from methanol
poisoning after drinking aquavit from a regular labelled
bottle.
The
38-year-old Lithuanian man was taken to hospital by friends on Friday and died a
day later, according to a report in the local Helsingborgs Dagblad
daily.
"It was
concluded that he had consumed a large amount of methanol," said Joakim Ekstrand
at Helsingborg's police to the newspaper.
The police
have opened an investigation into suspected manslaughter.
The
bottle, which carried the label of the aquavit brand "Renat brännvin", has been
passed on to the police.
It has not
yet been clarified how the man, who is of Lithuanian origin, got hold of the
bottle and the police have issued a general warning for the public to exercise
caution.
Methanol
is deadly even when consumed in small quantities.
The Local
reported in June about a 28-year-old Swede who died on Indonesian tourist island
of Gili Trawangan after drinking the local liquor.
While the
sale of alcohol is strictly controlled in Sweden and is sold exclusively by the
state-owned monopoly Systembolaget, there is an established black market of
imported spirits.
Furthermore the distilling of moonshine, known as "hembränt" in
Swedish, is a common problem both in rural and urban
areas.
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