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69 people die and 169 people hospitalized after drinking bad beer at a funeral.

REUTERS

MAPUTO — At least 69 people died over the weekend in Mozambique after drinking home-brewed beer, a local government official told state television.

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 on Saturday 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 neighbourhoods,” Paula Bernardo, the district director for Health, Women and Social Action, told the public broadcaster.

She said at least 169 remained in hospital. Samples of the brew and suspicious objects found inside the drum have been sent to the National Laboratory in the capital Maputo for testing.

Home brews concocted from corn, sorghum or other crops are commonly consumed in many parts of Africa and funerals on the continent are often accompanied by drinking and feasting.

The outgoing president, Armando Guebuza, declared three days of national mourning.

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WTF has now been redefined. How in the holy fuck did you stumble across that?

Doing my morning news perusal, I hit a site called realclearpolitics.com. Lots of articles usually paired with opposing view articles. There are also sites for Defense, technology, policy, energy, etc. and that particular article was under Science. So, along with articles on understanding our universe and the latest chip development techniques, there was that article. We might need to come up with an additional NSFW style caveat. YMLYL - You Might Lose Your Lunch

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