“Over 130 dead of moonshine liquor in India”
“The death toll rises among those who drank moonshine liquor in eastern India. Indian police confirm that a further 35 people hav died as a result of the booze.”
“– The death toll has risen to 133 persons in the districts of Golaghat and Jorhat after the tragedy with moonshine liquor, ” says Mukesh Agarwala, chief of police in the state of Assam.”
“Ten people who have connections to the spirits has been arrested by the Indian police. Samples of the sprite are sent for analysis.”
“Earlier in the weekend, the indian authorities reported that around 200 people are treated in hospital after drinking the booze. For several of them, the state is critical.”
“They hit the 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 northern India.”
