Eleven Cambodian villagers died after drinking rice wine suspected to be toxic during a funeral, a police officer said on Sunday, adding to the kingdom’s growing recent death toll from unsafe home-made alcohol.
In the past two months, more than 30 people have died in three separate incidents across Cambodia from home-brewed rice wine containing methanol – a highly toxic liquid that can cause blindness if ingested.
Since Friday, 11 people who attended a funeral in coastal Kampot province – about 155km from the capital Phnom Penh – died while 10 more were hospitalised after imbibing home-made wine.
