French police opened an investigation on October 29 following the death of a man in his 50 after he downed 56 shots during a drinking competition The man was attempting to beat the previous record of 55 shots in a bar in Clermont-Ferrand in central France on October 24 “he swallowed around 30 glasses in the space of a minute,” a police source said.
The man was driven home and emergency services took him in later that night. He died the next day in hospital after falling into a coma and suffering a heart attack, his 21-year-old daughter said.