Bad coconut wine kills 8 near Manila
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Eight people died and hundreds were taken to hospitals in the Philippines after drinking coconut wine believed to contain high levels of methanol, authorities said yesterday.
The victims all attended gatherings over the weekend in the town of Rizal, southeast of Manila, and complained of stomach pains after drinking the wine, known locally as 鈥渓ambanog.鈥
Nine victims are in a critical condition, said Jose Jonas Del Rosario, spokesman for the capital鈥檚 Philippine General Hospital.
鈥淲e asked many of our doctors on holiday leave to report to work just to attend to the patients,鈥 he said, adding that the need to treat large numbers who arrived with symptoms of alcohol poisoning meant other people were turned away.
In total, 300 victims were taken to hospitals. All drank the same brand of wine that had been bought in the area.
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