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Lethal Homebrew Kills 13 Iranians, Blinds Five
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Toxic moonshine killed 13 Iranians and blinded five others in the southern city of Shiraz, state media reported on Saturday.
The official news agency in Iran, where alcohol is banned, said 60 people were taken to hospital after knocking back the deadly homebrew and 20 were still in a critical condition.
State television showed the victims stretched out on hospital beds and rigged up to drips.
A television broadcast reminded viewers alcohol has been outlawed since the 1979 Islamic revolution but it is, however, widely available in Iran, where it is smuggled across the nation's borders.
Turtles Kept Lost Peruvian Fishermen Alive
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Three Peruvian shark fishermen lost at sea for 59 days survived by eating turtle meat and drinking the reptiles' blood, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The men set out on March 25 in the Pacific Ocean in a fishing boat without radio equipment.
They soon ran out of food and turned to eating turtles caught from the boat, El Comercio reported.
The sailors tried drinking the water in the radiator of the ship's engine but quickly realized it was toxic and turned to turtle blood instead.
"Thanks to training on a survival course, we also knew how to heat salt water to give us half a liter (2 pints) of drinking water every day," fisherman Manuel Ramirez told El Comercio.
An Ecuadorean ship rescued the men some 700 miles from the Peruvian coast on May 23. Each had lost 22 pounds, the paper said.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Toxic moonshine killed 13 Iranians and blinded five others in the southern city of Shiraz, state media reported on Saturday.
The official news agency in Iran, where alcohol is banned, said 60 people were taken to hospital after knocking back the deadly homebrew and 20 were still in a critical condition.
State television showed the victims stretched out on hospital beds and rigged up to drips.
A television broadcast reminded viewers alcohol has been outlawed since the 1979 Islamic revolution but it is, however, widely available in Iran, where it is smuggled across the nation's borders.
Turtles Kept Lost Peruvian Fishermen Alive
LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Three Peruvian shark fishermen lost at sea for 59 days survived by eating turtle meat and drinking the reptiles' blood, a newspaper reported on Friday.
The men set out on March 25 in the Pacific Ocean in a fishing boat without radio equipment.
They soon ran out of food and turned to eating turtles caught from the boat, El Comercio reported.
The sailors tried drinking the water in the radiator of the ship's engine but quickly realized it was toxic and turned to turtle blood instead.
"Thanks to training on a survival course, we also knew how to heat salt water to give us half a liter (2 pints) of drinking water every day," fisherman Manuel Ramirez told El Comercio.
An Ecuadorean ship rescued the men some 700 miles from the Peruvian coast on May 23. Each had lost 22 pounds, the paper said.