Kenyan ilegal alcohol kills over 130

In Kenya, the number of people who have died after drinking an illicit alcoholic drink has risen to more than one-hundred-and thirty.

Police say the number is expected to rise as people in Nairobi are still buying and drinking the lethal brew.

Over four-hundred people are being treated in hospital, many of them in a serious condition and at least twenty people have gone blind.

Yesterday, police said they had arrested fifty-eight people in connection with distributing the drink, known as chang'aa, in the slums around the capital, including the owner of a factory believed to be the source of its poisonous element. Two years ago nearly one-hundred people died and many more were blinded in the Nakuru district of Kenya after drinking chang'aa.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service