Phnom Penh (FN), May 25 - Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng, Minister of Industry and Handicrafts Cham Prasidh and Minister of Mines and Energy Suy Sem clarified the causes of contaminated water and poisonous rice wine in Kratie province, according to the press release signed by the three ministers dated on Thursday.

“Citizens in Kratie’s Chet Borey district were poisoned by excessive methanol contained in rice wine and the contaminated water from a stream that contained high level of chemical compound from the pesticide," the ministers wrote in the statement.

The ministries pledged to collaborate to prevent and avoid such issue.
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