2 people died and 5 sent to hospital after drinking rice wine

Kratie: After man people died and hospitalized after eating dog meat, now two people died and 5 other sent to hospital after they drank rice wine. According to Koh Santepheap Daily News, its believed that they were poisoned from that rice wine.

Two Women Dead After Drinking Infused Rice Wine

Two women died and four others fell ill in Kratie province on Tuesday after drinking rice wine infused with bark from a Neang Nuon tree, according to police.

Sisters Prolung Nhar, 28, and Prolung Thoeun, 34, purchased the tonic from a local shop to ease their backaches, said Chan Sok Kim, chief of police in Snuol district, but instead were struck by dizziness, vomiting and headaches and were sent to the provincial hospital.

Prolung Thoeun “was too seriously poisoned by the rice wine and she died,” he said.

Mr. Sok Kim confirmed that another woman, Korn Saroeun, 26, died on Wednesday after testing the infused wine, which she bought from the same shop with the intention to sell it at her own establishment.

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Two Dead, Five Sick from Tainted Wine

At least two women died and five people, including one man, are sick after they drank white wine mixed with rosewood bark on Tuesday in the same district where five people died and nearly 40 people got sick due to poisoned dog meat in Kratie province’s Snoul district, Khsem commune.


Or Seng, Khsem commune police chief, said yesterday that most villagers drink wine in the morning before they start their work. On Monday, the group drank one glass of white wine each and then went to harvest their rice field.

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Kratie province seems to excel in deadly funerals and rice wine is usually the culprit.

In Kratie province’s Sambor district late last month, two people died and more than 40 people were hospitalized after they participated in the neighbor’s funeral ceremony and drank rice wine.

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That said, I have drunk my share of rice wine in Kratie; I am not dead and no one I know has died from it. Used to buy it from a smelly little shop just off the market. It even comes in different flavours - if I remember, the red-coloured "wine" is sold as a "tonic."
Hundreds of thousands of Cambodians must drink sra sor every day, so statistically it is probably less lethal than driving a motorbike.But best avoided at funerals for some reason.

According to Kampuchea Thmey Daily News, the dead toll rises to four now.

Number of people got poisoned by rice wine in Kratie province rises up to more than 150 and 13 deaths

Phnom Penh: the ministry of health of Cambodia declared number of people got poisoned by rice wine in Kratie province rises up to 157 and 13 deaths. Those people who had died were not died from eating dog meat.

According to the declaration of ministry of health of Cambodia, people died and got poisoned from drinking rice wine that consisted huge amount of methanol by overusing of this chemical substance by the rice wine makers. They have put more 0.15 percent than the recommended usage. Most of local rice makers don’t know how use this chemical substance properly.

First case: it happened in Chor Thanal village, Sambo district, Kratie province, 51 people got poisoned, 3 deaths.

Second case: It happened in Snoul village, Snoul district, Kratie province. 66 people got poisoned, 6 deaths.

Third case: it happened in Sre Thmey village, Kasab commune, 23 people got poisoned (9 female), 3 deaths.

Fourth case: It happened in Trapeang leak village, Snoul commune. 12 people got pensioned.

Fifth case: It happened in Por village, Bos Leav commune, Chet borey district, Kratie province, 5 people got poisoned.

An interesting Op-ed about the Alcohol law in Cambodia and the author had pointed out some interesting points against the ban of making rice wine

Possibly Deadly Alcohol Should Not Be Banned or Regulated

Following the deaths of 18 people in Kratie province over the past week, the provincial government has implemented an emergency ban on the production of rice wine. The ban comes after proposals by the Health Ministry earlier this year to curb alcohol use in Cambodia, which were met with broad bipartisan support.

Unfortunately, these knee-jerk responses do nothing to address alcohol consumption and often have even worse unintended consequences.


The assumption that banning the production or consumption of anything that people demand is a common fallacy by policymakers. Tightening regulations does not make people want something less, it simply raises the price, the stakes, and the danger in providing and obtaining that product.

Calls for alcohol regulations often arise in response to alcohol-related tragedies, such as that which has struck people in Kratie, or the release of reports by public health agencies exposing the dangers of alcohol consumption.

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