69 die after drinking poisoned home brewed wine in Mozambique.

At least 69 people died over the weekend in
Mozambique after drinking home-brewed beer, a
local Mozambique 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 national mouring for the lost