Chinese family from Hainan province tested mineral water on a chicken after the family member number started vomiting blood after drinking a bottle of water, a newspaper said. Reuters reports with reference to the Beijing News.
They fed the luckless chicken the rest of the water to see what would happen, the Beijing News said, citing a report in a local paper. "The result was the chicken died within a minute," it said, showing a picture of a man holding a plastic bottle squatting over the crumpled body of the bird.
The province's authorities were investigating, it added.
