At least 69 people died over the weekend in Mozambique after
drinking home-brewed beer, a local government official has said.
The mass poisoning occurred when people attending a funeral
on Friday in the village of Chitima in central Mozambique fell ill, with seven
fatalities initially confirmed the following morning.
"As we prepared to determine the cause of death of
people we began to receive a lot of people with diarrhea and other muscle
aches. After that we began to receive dead bodies from several
neighborhoods," Paula Bernardo, the district director for Health, Women
and Social Action, told the public broadcaster.
169 people are presently being treated at different
hospitals in the country, while samples of the brew and suspicious objects
found inside the drum have been sent to the National Laboratory for testing.
The country’s president, Armando Guebuza, has declared three
days of national mourning for the lost souls. So sad.....
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