After drinking an illegal home-made banana gin laced with methanol has killed about 80 people in Uganda. Patrick Tusiime said that many people had died because relatives denied that victims were drinking the gin, known waragi. Deaths occurred over the past three weeks in the south-western Kabale district. Authorities were conducting a house-to-house search for the gin. Waragi is a drink across Uganda; they use this as an alternative alcohol because most of them cannot afford to buy an industrialized one. Almost 120 jerry cans of waragi were seized. All alcohol found were confiscated but people were stubborn and have found ingenious ways to hide it. Affected individuals became blind and suffered liver and kidney failure before dying. Banana Gin Has Killed 80 People in Uganda is a post from: Daily World Buzz
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Banana Gin Has Killed 80 People in Uganda
