Kratie Funeral Rice Wine Kills 2, Sends 43 to Hospital

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sat Jul 14, 2018 5:17 pm

Kratie: On July 13 at 7:15 pm, 43 people were sent to Snoul Referral Hospital, and 2 women died, after drinking rice wine at a funeral in Snoul Wat Ket village, Kratie.

Before the incident, the victims went to a funeral in the village where they drank the rice wine. Very quickly, there were bad side effects from the wine, and the victims were rushed to the hospital immediately. The police are investigating the case to find out what caused the problem.

The two women who died were identified as Prech Nat, 36 years old and Lai, 35-year-old.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sun Jul 15, 2018 1:20 pm

(Update) 14 July 2018
As of Saturday, only 25 of the victims are still being treated at Kratie Provincial Hospital, according to Snoul governor Kong Kimny. The others have recovered and gone home.

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 12:50 am

16 July 2018
Kratie: Authorities have determined that the largest of the latest Kratie rice wine poisonings occurred at the funeral ceremony of a woman who had died earlier that week... of rice wine poisoning.

Chhneang Sovutha, director of the Kratie provincial health department, said on Saturday that the two poisoning incidents occurred within two days.

The first happened during a party in Snuol district on Thursday, which left three people dead, including 37-year-old Prech Sinath, 32-year-old Hun Sreylai, and 57-year-old Hor Hun.

The second incident occurred during Ms Sinath’s funeral on Friday, which led to the hospitalisation of dozens of people.

Mr Sovutha said that rice wine was served to dozens of villagers at Ms Sinath’s funeral on Friday.

“According to our observations, we have preliminarily concluded that the villagers got sick after consuming methanol-laced rice wine,” Mr Sovutha said.
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