WORLD NEWS: FOUR DEAD, 40 HOSPITALIZED IN TUNISIA ALCOHOL POISONING
In southern Tunisia, contaminated alcohol has resulted in 40 hospital admissions and four fatalities, according to an official.
A representative for the Medenine Court, Fethi Baccouche, told AFP that an investigation has been launched and the supplier of the alcohol has been taken into custody.
The cause of the widespread poisoning is being investigated by an investigation of the alcohol.
The majority of the 40 survivors left the hospital, but several were sent to Tunis, the country’s capital, for further care, according to Baccouche, who did not provide precise figures.
In Tunisia, poisonings from tainted or improperly prepared alcohol are frequent and frequently deadly.
Following the use of tainted beer, the health officials of Tunisia reported in 2021 that five people had died and twenty-five others had been hospitalised in Kasserine, in the country’s west.
Furthermore, 39 people who drank methanol close to Kairouan in May 2020 became poisoned—six of them died.
In certain working-class neighbourhoods of Tunis and in outlying areas of the nation with significant rates of poverty, homemade alcohol is frequently consumed.
Illegal alcohol is frequently far less expensive than what is sold in stores.
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