“India: More than 80 dead of moonshine liquor”
“The death toll is rising sharply among those who reported drinking moonshine alcohol in the north east of India. At least 84 people have died and around 200 receiving hospital care, according to the authorities.”
“– every ten minutes we get reports of victims at different locations. So far are around 200 in the hospital and the condition of several of them is critical, ” says the state of Assams minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.”
“the Majority of those affected are working on a cultivation of tea and have been drinking the toxic alcohol after they received their weekly wage paid. According to local authorities, however all of them almost immediately after they consumed alcohol.”
“It is not uncommon to the poorer part of the population in India die as a result of illegally produced alcohol. The poisoning of teodlingen in the state of Assam comes less than two weeks after around 100 people died from toxic alcohol in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in north India”