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Booze spiked with methanol kills 20 in Costa Rica

Twenty people have died in recent days in Costa Rica after drinking alcohol spiked with methanol, the health ministry said Saturday.

Health authorities have been on alert since early October when the first deaths related to the tainted alcohol were reported in the La Carpio area of western San Jose.

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