Three more people have died after drinking homemade booze in South Africa in the face of the country’s controversial ban on alcohol during the coronavirus lockdown. Local media report three people have died in the village of KwaNonibe in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province after drinking home-brewed beer where methylated…
The death toll in Romania of people who died after drinking an alcohol-based hand sanitiser containing methanol instead of ethanol has now risen to 16. Yet incredibly, one of those who drank more than those that died, consuming an entire bottle on his own, has survived and is now telling…
Six men and two women were mowed down after being told to run by hooded gunmen who pulled up as they were having a drink together outside a petrol station in Mexico. The incident was reported just after 6pm outside a Repsol petrol station in the neighbourhood of Manuel Avila…
This senior Islamic cleric has claimed that Muslims who drink alcohol after sunset “have not invalidated the day’s fast”. Cleric Ali Gomaa, 68, who was formerly the Grand Mufti of Egypt, made the comments when speaking on Egyptian TV channel CBC about fasting in Ramadan. The Egyptian cleric said: “The…
South African officials are set to introduce rules to stop people drinking alcohol-based hand sanitiser after the country banned the sale and distribution of alcohol. The country introduced the ban as a response to the coronavirus pandemic after politicians were told that 40 percent of hospital emergency admissions were alcohol…