{"id":81527,"date":"2015-01-12T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=81527"},"modified":"2015-01-12T12:06:39","modified_gmt":"2015-01-12T12:06:39","slug":"mozambique-poisoned-beer-kills-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=81527","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique &#8216;poisoned&#8217; beer kills 69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introduction\">\u00a0The number of people killed after drinking a &#8220;poisoned&#8221; homemade beer in Mozambique has risen to 69,the country&#8217;s state radio has revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">A health official said the beer may have been contaminated with crocodile bile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">A toddler, according to the BBC was among those killed after drinking the beer at a funeral in Tete province on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-81535\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beer.jpg\" alt=\"beer\" width=\"604\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beer.jpg 604w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/beer-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The incident is reportedly the worst to hit the area as 39 others are being treated in hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The beer, known as &#8220;phombe&#8221;, is traditionally served at functions in Mozambique&#8217;s Tete province.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">It is unclear how the beer had been contaminated and whether it was intentional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"introduction\">The BBC reported that the government has declared three days of national mourning in a decree published on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The number of people killed after drinking a &#8220;poisoned&#8221; homemade beer in Mozambique has risen to 69,the country&#8217;s state radio has revealed. A health official said the beer may have been contaminated with crocodile bile. A toddler, according to the BBC was among those killed after drinking the beer at a funeral in Tete province [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":81536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-81527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}