Mourners at a funeral in Germany were accidentally served hash cakes in a blunder that left 13 people needing medical treatment for nausea and dizziness, local police have said.
After a burial in Wiethagen, the funeral party went to a restaurant for coffee and cake, as is customary in the country, before the ceremony ended in an unexpected high.
The restaurant employee in charge of the baking accidently took the wrong cakes from her freezer to the funeral. She brought along a hash cake her teenage daughter had made for a different occasion, a police investigation found.
The widow was rushed to hospital amid concern she was suffering from a stroke, local media reported. And after the other 12 guests also requested medical treatment, drug tests were carried out before authorities stepped in.
Rostock police said the 18-year-old daughter of the restaurant employee is under investigation in relation to 13 cases of negligent and dangerous bodily injury, disrupting a funeral and violation of the Narcotics Act, according to German newspaper Nordkurier.
The incident happened in August but was not published earlier out of respect for the mourners.
