A British toddler was critically ill Tuesday after a hotel barman in Cyprus accidentally mixed cleaning fluid in her orange juice, police said.
Staff at Nicosia's Makarios Hospital children's ward said the two-year-old girl was connected to a respirator and was in a critical but stable condition.
The toddler, who was on holiday with her parents at the southern coastal resort of Limassol, suffered burns Saturday after sipping the orange juice laced with cleaning fluid, police said in a statement.
The child's 55-year-old father had ordered water-diluted orange juice from the hotel barman. Police said it was unclear how the poison got into the drink, but it appeared the barman may have confused a refilled water bottle containing the colorless, odorless cleaning fluid for water.
The father was treated in hospital after drinking some of the orange juice and later released, police said. The identities of the child and her father were not released.
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