According to the spokesman of the SIC in Luanda, Fernando de Carvalho, three people have already been arrested, including a woman, who manufactured and sold the drink.
"For now we can not advance more, because we still do not have the laboratory results, but we confirm the death of five people by alcoholic congestion," said the responsible, in statements to the Lusa agency.
Fernando de Carvalho stressed that these are preliminary data and that the investigation team is still on the field.
Meanwhile, the Angolan public radio reported that the number of deaths has risen to eight, including a 14-year-old teenager.
The deputy administrator of Viana, Njinga Tuta, confirmed the death of eight people following the ingestion of a portion of "caipirinha".
The case occurred in the neighborhood of Caop, in Viana, and involves a drink which was given the name of "caipirinha of bad luck", a mixture of drinks, namely "água do chefe" [a distilled craft drink, composed of sugar and yeast], capassarinho [a fruit with hallucinogenic effect] and JET A1 fuel, for airplanes.
According to the coordinator of the neighborhood Residents' Commission, António Costa, the drink causes as symptoms headache, body aches, nausea, general malaise, difficulty walking, in addition to loss of vision.
"There are other people in sector 12, but we can't reach them. The information they gave us is that they consumed a drink, which they call chief's water, mixed with JET and other products that we can't identify, but they say they are some buttons that come from a plough, they made the mixture of this drink and its ingestion gives back problems and other symptoms", explained António Costa.
According to the head of the residents' committee, support was given to the families to take a cab and take those affected to Josina Machel Hospital.
