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One dead, nine ill after drinking rice wine in S China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-07-10 07:10 GUANGZHOU -- One man died and nine others were hospitalized after drinking rice wine in a village in the southern Guangdong Province on Wednesday afternoon. According to a man surnamed Xiao, one of those apparently poisoned, about 20 people were celebrating a woman's birthday in Haolang Village, Leizhou City. Ten drank rice wine before developing symptoms of dizziness and nausea. The wine with honey wax was purchased by the woman's son in a nearby county. An investigation is under way. |
