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To celebrate the day, glasses of brandy clinked. It should be the last. For 31 people, Mother’s Day in Mexico ended in death. The bottles were dirty. What is not yet known exactly.
17 of the dead came from the municipality of Chiconcuautla in the state of Puebla, as the local administration said on Tuesday (local time). The civil defense there said in a message on its Facebook page that at least 14 other people were also killed in the villages of Telixtac and Jonacatepec in the state of Morelos, on the border with Puebla.
According to a report in the newspaper “La Jornada”, the Morelos authorities also did not rule out that there could be more victims due to the adulterated brandy. Alcohol was secretly sold, as alcohol is currently banned in municipalities due to the Corona crisis. The victims’ symptoms included abdominal pain, shortness of breath and blindness, the newspaper quoted the civil defense as saying. You probably would have consumed the brandy during the celebrations on Sunday, Mother’s Day and Monday.
Explained health emergency
The municipality of Chiconcuautla declared a health emergency due to the deaths. He called on the population to stop consuming or selling alcoholic beverages for the time being. Anyone who has drunk Refino, a kind of agave brandy distilled in small amounts, and had a headache, dizziness or vomiting last weekend, should go to the nearest clinic immediately, he said. The exact cause of the deaths is still under investigation.
Chiconcuautla is a poor indigenous community of around 17,000 inhabitants. It is located in a mountainous region about 200 kilometers northeast of Mexico City. (SDA)
