Two more fall ill to coffee poisoning


GEORGE TOWN: Two rubbish truck drivers have become the latest victims of the premix coffee that “stirred” a controversy last month.

They were hospitalised after consuming packets of instant white coffee given by their colleague – a Bangladeshi garbage collector who found them in a dustbin.

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