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PANAMA CITY, Panama (AP) - Authorities in Panama on Monday exhumed the bodies of 12 people who may have died from taking medications contaminated with diethylene glycol, a chemical cousin of antifreeze.
Medical examiners took tissue samples from the corpses after relatives voiced suspicions that their loved ones were killed last year by tainted cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion or rash ointment.
The exhumations are part of an investigation into a scandal in which companies allegedly sold tainted ingredients to the government health agency, which used them to produce medicines that have been blamed in the deaths of at least 51 people.
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