{"id":1213512,"date":"2022-09-29T16:59:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/29\/19-die-after-drinking-toxic-alcohol\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:59:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T16:59:30","slug":"19-die-after-drinking-toxic-alcohol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/29\/19-die-after-drinking-toxic-alcohol\/","title":{"rendered":"19 die after drinking toxic alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"25\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>At least 19 people have been confirmed dead after drinking toxic alcohol at a roadside shop in Morocco\u2019s northern city of Ksar el-Kebir.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of other people were taken to hospital in critical condition, with two in intensive care, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the incident. Police are said to have recovered about 50 litres of the alcohol at his store.<\/p>\n<p>Selling alcohol to Muslims is forbidden in Morocco, but it is often discreetly sold in restaurants and stores.<\/p>\n<p>In August, eight people died after drinking contaminated alcohol in the northern Oriental region, and at least 20 died in July last year in a similar incident in Oujda in eastern Morocco.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Nv8_sGc5Mik\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Peoples Forum: Perennial flooding in Ghana - Badwam Mpensenpensemu (29-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nv8_sGc5Mik?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo At least 19 people have been confirmed dead after drinking toxic alcohol at a roadside shop in Morocco\u2019s northern city of Ksar el-Kebir. Dozens of other people were taken to hospital in critical condition, with two in intensive care, local media reported. A 48-year-old man has been arrested in connection to the incident. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}