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newsNews24 reports that police are investigating the death of a worker who drowned in a wine vat in Malmesbury on Sunday.  

Abraham Fortuin, 44, was found floating in a plastic vat in a factory in the industrial area of Malmesbury.  He had been cleaning the tanks with a co-worker.  Fortuin was allegedly overcome by fumes when he got into the vat to retrieve a bucket.  He seemingly lost consciousness and then drowned in the knee-deep wine.


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