An Australian man is accused of killing a man who died when he was hit by a bottle of wine allegedly thrown from the seventh storey of a high rise apartment in Singapore.

The bottle landed on the head of a delivery driver, who was at a barbeque below surrounded by friends and family.

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Andrew Gosling has been charged in Singapore with the unusual - perhaps even globally unique - offence that locals call 'killer-litter crime'.

Gosling, a contractor to multinational firm Orica, is accused of having thrown a wine bottle from the seventh level of a 35-storey apartment in Spottiswoode Park, Singapore.

Couldn't be saved

The bottle hit 74-year-old delivery driver Nasiari Sunee on the head.

He'd been attending a BBQ with family and friends - one was a nurse - but he couldn't be saved.

Police went door to door at the apartment block - showing residents a picture of the Italian wine bottle and asking if they'd been drinking and were willing to provide fingerprint samples.

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Officers arrested Gosling last Wednesday and charged him with "a rash act causing death".

Locally, it's called 'killer-litter crime'.

Last year, more than 434 cases of high-rise littering were reported - the last fatal incident was in 2014.

If convicted, Gosling can be jailed for up to five years and fined.