Fatal concotion: a Brazilian pump attendant, wearing gloves and a mask,
is pictured filling a tank with the toxic mixture of methanol, alcohol and
petrol that has been on sale since the country’s sugar-cane ethanol stocks
ran low (This Week, 10 February).
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