Toddler seriously ill after drinking cleaning fluid

A BRITISH toddler was seriously ill in a Cyprus hospital last night after accidentally drinking cleaning fluid in a hotel bar.

Annabel Rhodes suffered severe internal injuries when a barman accidentally put the liquid in her orange juice at the Curium Palace hotel in the resort of Limassol on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The two-year-old was rushed to Makarios Hospital in the capital Nicosia with burns to her oesophagus and put on a respirator.