{"id":698,"date":"2020-09-15T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:49:31","slug":"11-year-old-defending-champ-dies-during-beer-drinking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/2020\/09\/15\/11-year-old-defending-champ-dies-during-beer-drinking-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"11-Year-Old Defending Champ Dies During Beer Drinking Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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11-Year-Old Defending Champ Dies During Beer Drinking Contest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tragedy as an 11-year-old boy identified as Humphreys Chipeta who is a defending champion in a drinking contest on Monday died during the final stage.<\/p>\n

A local media website, Malawi24 reported that the boy identified as Humphreys Chipeta, who was a keen drinker, died after drinking five bottles of kachasu at a beer-drinking contest in Mzimba in the northern part of the country.<\/p>\n

According to South African news website, IOL, Kachashu is an illegal traditional distilled beverage consumed mainly in rural and poor urban residential areas of Malawi.<\/p>\n

The beer-drinking competition was organised for those aged under 14, those below 21 years, and for seniors. The winner of the beer-drinking competition was set to pocket MK20 000 (about N10,000).<\/p>\n

Eyewitnesses told Malawi24 that the boy had reached the finals of the contest when he collapsed.<\/p>\n

An eyewitness said that they suspected foul play in the boy\u2019s death as he was the defending champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was not just an amateur boozer,\u201d said the witness, identified as Emmanuel Chirwa.<\/p>\n

According to Chirwa, contestants paid a MK1,000 entrance fee and were required to eat before the drinking competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, he did not die because he did not eat before beginning the contest. They all ate before the contest. Something went wrong,\u201d said Chirwa.<\/p>\n

The child protection officer for the area, Shanks Nkhata, said he was following up the matter and would engage traditional leaders on banning the brewing of the illicit beer.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hear the child was in Standard 7 at Kafulufulu primary and with schools on a corona (Covid-19) break, he turned into an avid drunkard,\u201c Malawi24 quoted Nkhata as saying, adding that he was aware of similar other cases.<\/p>\n

Beer drinking competitions are common in parts of Malawi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tragedy as an 11-year-old boy identified as Humphreys Chipeta who is a defending champion in a drinking contest on Monday died during the final stage. A local media website, Malawi24 reported that the boy identified as Humphreys Chipeta, who was a keen drinker, died after drinking five bottles of kachasu at a beer-drinking contest in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"11-Year-Old Defending Champ Dies During Beer Drinking Contest","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[302,301,303],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/11-Year-Old-Defending-Champ-Dies-During-Beer-Drinking-Contest.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pci3ty-bg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/untamenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}