Perhaps they were using "English as she is Spoke" to assist in their translation!
“1 pm in the morning” — WHO had the few drinks?
Text to Speech raises its ugly head again.
Is very common among what passes for reporters nowadays.
Siri and Goog have speech assistants that help us text, and help reporters that can’t type or spell, quickly finish their articles.
And they post it online before any editors actually read it.
Add in a foreign news aggregation website and the mangling is complete.