12 more people died overnight as a result of consuming
illicit liqour bringing the national death toll to 77. Latest reports revealed
that 8 people among forty others admitted at the Embu level 5 hospital
succumbed to complications arising from the side effects of consuming the
illicit liquor.
At the same time the
death toll in Kitui rose to ten after four more people died at Mutomo mission
hospital, in Makueni county, 16 people among them the bar owner also passed
away at the Makueni level 4 hospital.
Prompting condemnation from a section of
leaders from the county who urged the residents to desist from consuming cheap
and unlicensed alcohol. 69 people were admitted.
"It is not enough. These people died because the security agents were not doing their jobs. And this was a big operation if it the brew was transported across county borders. It cannot be business as usual," he said.
The woman suspected of having sold the illicit brew dubbed Kathavuria in the Embu slum of Shauri Yako was arrested by police on Monday and her husband is believed to be among the dead.
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