London, March 1 (IANS) A 43-year-old man in the US burned to death after accidentally drinking gasoline and then smoking a cigarette, the Daily Mail reported Thursday.
Gary Allen Banning burst into flames after the cigarette ignited some of the liquid he had spilled on his clothes.
Police said Banning was at a friend’s apartment in Havelock, North Carolina, when he apparently mistook a jar of gasoline sitting by the kitchen sink for a drink.
Realising his mistake he immediately spit out the gas, but some of it spilled onto his clothes.
Sometime later, he went outside to smoke a cigarette and burst into flames.
“It was just a freak incident,” said W.K. Preslar, investigator with the Havelock Police Department.
