Home-made vodka kills 13 people in Iran

Home-made vodka has killed 13 people in southern Iran and badly sickened 25 others, state-run television reported today.

The vodka, consumed in Shiraz, blinded four of the survivors, Hossein Ali Amiri, a local judicial official told Iranian television. The vodka was still being analysed, but Amiri said it probably contained methanol, a flammable and poisonous liquid used in solvents and fuels.