“Over 40 dead of illegal liquor in India”
“at Least 41 workers at a cultivation of tea in northeast India have died after drinking moonshine alcohol. A further 45 people are treated in hospitals, and 20 of them are in a critical state.”
“the Workers must have been drinking the toxic alcohol after they received their weekly wage paid and ill almost immediately afterwards, citing the local authorities.”
“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.”