At least 50 people have died in Somalia after drinking contaminated water from a well in northern Mogadishu, an official in that East African country said Thursday. Osman Mohamed, the deputy commissioner for Somalia's Yaqshid district, told CNN about the deaths among those who drank from the newly constructed well. More than 150 people who had water from that well were recently hospitalized. Hawo Abdi, a mother of four, told CNN that her 8-year-old child is among those who died after drinking the contaminated water. While access to drinkable water has improved in recent years, it still remains a major and sometimes deadly problem in some places.More than 150 are hospitalized after drinking tainted water from a newly constructed wellA mother of four says her 8-year-old child is among at least 50 dead after drinking the waterAccess to quality drinking water is a big problem in Somalia and other parts of Africa
That's especially true in parts of _, and even more so in Somalia, which has some of the lowest rates of water coverage in the world.