Tainted Alcohol Has Claimed 58 Lives
From Times Wire Reports
The death toll from a mysterious alcohol-poisoning epidemic in El Salvador rose to 58, with authorities saying methanol was the likely cause. Police in the central city of San Vicente have raided cantinas, liquor stores, clandestine alcohol vendors and pharmacies selling medicinal alcohol and declared an alcohol ban throughout the region for this week. Methanol is a poisonous industrial alcohol that is often mixed with gasoline as a burning agent.
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