Crocodile bile was somehow added to the traditional millet beer (Picture: AFP/Getty Images)

At least 69 people have died with a further 196 hospitalised after apparently drinking beer contaminated with crocodile bile at a funeral .

The funeral attendees had drunk Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer made from millet or corn flour.

Police and health authorities in the Tete region of Mozambique are currently investigating the source and spread of this deadly incident.

The director of health for the region, Paulo Bernando, told Radio Mozambique: ‘People flocked to the hospital suffering from diarrhoea and muscle pain.


‘Then bodies from various neighbourhoods were brought to the hospital and this alerted us.’

Blood and Pombe beer samples have been sent the Mozambique capital of Maputo for further testing.



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