Cambodia arrests 13 over tainted rice wine that killed 12

The death toll from drinking poisoned wine rose to 12 in Lvea Em district of Kandal province on May 18. - Fresh News

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia has arrested 13 people in southern Kandal province's Lvea Em district for allegedly producing and selling methanol-laced rice wine that had killed at least 12 people, a local police chief said on Friday (May 21).

"Two rice wine producers and 11 vendors have been arrested and sent to the Kandal provincial court for legal action over this fatal case," Colonel Lak Mengthy, chief of Kandal provincial police's minor crimes bureau, told Xinhua.