at Least 133 people have died and about 225 others admitted to hospitals in the northeast of India, after they have drunk hjemmebrændt alcohol in two separate incidents.
It informs the authorities Sunday, according to news agency AP.
on Saturday, informed the minister of health in the state of Assam, the death toll was at least 84.
– Every ten minutes we get reports of deaths and injuries in different locations. So far around 200 people hospitalized, many of them are in critical condition, said the health minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma, on Saturday, according to news agency Reuters.
the Victims of one of the most fatal alcohol-related accidents in India’s history are mainly women, who worked on the tea plantations in the districts of Golaghat and Jorhat in the state of Assam.
the Women had supposedly just been given their weekly wages.
The state police commissioner Mukesh Agarwal, according to the AP.
Assam is India’s largest teproducerende state with more than 1000 plantations, which produce more than 50 percent of all indian tea.
the Workers drank the married liquid with methanol, which is a chemical that attacks the central nervous system last Thursday, after which they one after another began to fall.
They were quickly brought to nearby hospitals, but during the night of Sunday the death toll reached 133.
the Owner of a local brewery, along with 13 others have been arrested. This was stated by the police commissioner Mukesh Agarwal. Police believe, however, that more can be involved in the incident.
– We will come down hard on anyone who has been involved in the manufacture and distribution of this toxic fluid, says health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday.
It is less than two weeks ago, that over 100 people died in another place in northern India, after they had been drinking illegally produced alcohol.
It happens regularly that the indians die of drinking hjemmebrændt alcohol. Many cannot afford to buy alcohol in the shops and obtain it instead from the unregulated producers.
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