A woman was arrested after she was caught on the camera, a female colleague in Brazil would have poisoned because she was jealous of her promotion.
The 38-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Thursday in the central city of Abaida de Goiás, almost two weeks after she tried to kill her colleague.
The woman, whose name was not released, became furious after her colleague had earned a promotion in a textile factory, said the civil police of Goiás.
She got into a fight with the colleague, whose identity was also remembered, and was 'very angry' after their boss announced the climb on February 14.
The jealous worker waited for her colleague to leave and went to an area at work where their water bottles were stored, showed surveillance video images.
She grabbed her water bottle and threw a chemical in it.
Her colleague was about to drink from the bottle and was burned in the mouth and immediately asked for medical help.
The jealous employee is confronted with an attempted murder attack and can be ordered from six to 20 years in prison if she is found guilty.
Brazilian authorities arrested a 38-year-old woman (photo) on Thursday to try to poison her colleague by inserting a chemical in a bottle of water
A police officer guides a 38-year-old textile factory worker who was arrested on Thursday in Abaida de Goiás, Brazil, two weeks after she tried to kill her colleague by poisoning her water
The murder attempt follows an eruption of incidents in which people are poisoned by vengeful family members in the South -American nation.
Dise Dos Anjos is said to have killed three of her husband's relatives and admitted three others to the hospital with a poisoned cake during a Christmas Eve reunion in a house in Torres, a city in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.
DOS Anjos was arrested on January 6 and was accused of triple murder.
She was found dead on 13 February in her prison chat on a women's prison.
Authorities said the suspect became 'very angry' after she heard that her colleague had promoted in the textile factory where they both worked
On 10 February Maria Silva and her friend Francisco Costa were arrested for alleged poisoning of a New Year's Day lunch that her family killed.
The victims include her two children and five grandchildren.
As part of the investigation, the Police Costa arrested on January 6 and accused of poisoning a rice, beans and fish meals that was over.
In an attempt to release Costa, Silva tried to make her neighbor and former love flame, Maria da Silva, responsible by poisoning her coffee and killing her.
