Seven people in Cambodia die after drinking disinfectant alcohol

Health ministry says labourers at Covid quarantine camp in north-west province mixed substance with water and soft drinks

Seven Cambodian labourers have died after drinking alcohol they were given as a disinfectant while in quarantine, having mixed it with water and soft drinks, the country's health ministry has said.

The labourers had returned from Thailand and were placed in a coronavirus quarantine camp in the north-western Banteay Meanchey province.