BERLIN, Germany - A service outage at the American corporation Microsoft has been identified as the cause of chlorine poisoning affecting 15 people at a swimming pool in an amusement park in the western German town of Bruehl, Sputnik/RIA Novosti reported, citing the WDR broadcaster.
On Saturday, the Bild newspaper reported an incident at the park's swimming pool, in which approximately 15 visitors were affected, several of them required hospitalisation.
Due to outage of the Outlook service, emails stopped arriving, so no one noticed that the monitoring system had already sent an alert via email indicating that the concentration of the substance had exceeded safe levels, the broadcaster said. Essentially, the automatic dosing system had released an excessive amount of chlorine into the pool, it added.
According to the broadcaster, the water in the pool was replaced following the incident, and the facility is now open to visitors once again. - BERNAMA-SPUTNIK/RIA NOVOSTI