In Kuwait, 23 people died in one week from alcohol laced with methanol.

In Kuwait, 23 people died from alcohol containing methanol in one week. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Health of the country.

According to the ministry, about 160 people were poisoned with methanol in the country.

"The number of cases of poisoning with alcoholic beverages containing methanol has increased to 160, 23 of them were fatal," the social network X (ex. Twitter).

In addition, they added that most of the cases are citizens of Asian countries.

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