Tainted rice wine kills 19, leaves 172 ill in Cambodia

13 December 2015
INQUIRER.net
Government / Health care policy and administration / Ministry of Health / Social development
Mam Bunheng

Rice wine brewed with a toxic level of alcohol has killed at least 19 people and left 172 more in hospital in northeast Cambodia, the health ministry said Sunday.

“Laboratory tests found the deaths were caused by the high methanol level in the wine,” Ly Sovann, a spokesman for the health ministry, told AFP. …

 AFP News Staff
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/747322/tainted-rice-wine-kills-19-leaves-172-ill-in-cambodia

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