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. 'Ghastly error' as milk is put into vein, not stomach. Mother had died after four separate visits to hospitalA wave of indignation swept around Spain after hospital negligence provoked the death of a premature baby born to a young Moroccan immigrant who was the first person in the country to die of swine flu.The baby, Rayan, died just 14 days after his 20-year-old mother, Dalilah Mimouni, because a milk solution that should have been fed into his stomach via a tube was attached instead to a drip into a vein.Hospital authorities immediately admitted 'a ghastly error'. 'It is a piece of gross negligence that has no excuse,' hospital director Antonio Barba said. 'The family is totally distraught.'The child's father said the boy would be buried alongside his mother in her home town of Mdiq, northern Morocco.The error was blamed on an inexperienced nurse on one of her first shifts in the intensive care unit of Madrid's Gregorio Marañón maternity hospital.It came just days after Mimouni's

ONE of the highlights of the classical music season, the Bayreuth Festival, which celebrates the music of Richard Wagner, may be played out in darkness this year. The scenery also may be shifted by members of the Wagner family because workers are fed up with being paid little more than 4 euros ($7) an hour.

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