An 11-year-old boy died after he downed bottles of beer during an under-14s drinking contest. The child, described as a "keen drinker", reportedly drunk five bottles of Kachashu, an unlicensed traditional distilled beer which was even used as hand sanitiser by locals.
But he "dropped dead" as shocked onlookers watched the competition in the town of Mzimba, in the northern Malawi district of the same name.
Friends of the unnamed boy claimed he collapsed in the finals of the drinking contest, Daily Star reports. The beer-drinking contest had a prize of MWK 20,000 MWK (£20.50).
The competition was reportedly organised in three categories, under-14, under-21 and seniors. According to the national newspaper Daily Voice, bystander Emmanuel
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