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Bootlegged alcohol kills at least 14 in Czech Republic

Bootlegged alcohol is responsible for at least 14 deaths and has hospitalized at least 20 others.

The Czech prime minister said his government will ease a ban on the sale of spirits that was put into place because of methanol poisoning that killed 26 people.

Two men drink alcohol from bottles on a street in Prague on September 12, 2012. At least 14 people have died and more than 20 have been hospitalised in the Czech Republic after drinking spirits apparently tainted with methanol, Czech officials said. 'The last figure I've heard was 14, but the numbers... must be taken with caution as it takes two or three days to confirm the cause of death by autopsy,' Health Minister Leos Heger told reporters.

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