Three out of 69 people who were hospitalised on October 26 after drinking homemade rice wine in Kampong Cham province’s Stung Trang district have died, with laboratory test results confirming that the wine contained dangerous levels of methanol.
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General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression officials checking poisoning case in Kampong Trach District, Kampot on July 4, 2021. CCF
Nine die of ‘wine poisoning’
Sun, 4 July 2021
Nine people died on July 4 and 12 others were hospitalised after drinking rice and herbal wines in Svay Tong Khang Tbong commune’s Koh Chhwang village of Kampot province’s Kampong Trach district, according to the General Department of Consumer Protection, Competition and Fraud Repression (CCF).
CCF’s press release on July 4 stated that it had been determined that there were nine people who had died, while 12 more people were taken to Damnak Chang Eur hospital and Kampong Trach referral hospital for emergency treatment.