Really sad!
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.
