Toxic rice wine kills 12 people in Cambodia

A couple of co-workers out on motorbikes after curfew show their documents to traffic police along an eerily-quiet Monivong Boulevard near Bokor Stop in Chamkarmon district last month.- Phnom Penh Post/ANN

PHNOM PENH, May 22 (dpa): A dozen people have died in Cambodia after drinking tainted rice wine, the country's Ministry of Health had announced.

Health authorities said 12 people died from consuming the locally-produced alcohol, and at least five more people had been hospitalised.