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| Some alcoholic beverages are manufactured illegally in Kuwait at secret locations that lack safety standards. (AFP pic) |
Kuwait arrests 67 over illegal alcohol after 23 deaths
Alcohol is produced by fermenting sugars. Pure sugar should give you pure ethanol, but if you are fermenting grain or fruit, you are going to get some methanol. There are ways to minimize the amount of methanol in the end product, but if you aren't careful, or don't know what you are doing, you can end up with a poisonous drink, and that seems to be what happened here.
You would think that in this day and age with ubiquitous access to all knowledge, things like this wouldn't happen, but some people just don't care about other people. Or they are just stupid. Could be either, or both.
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