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, said the state of Assams minister Himanta Biswa Sarma earlier on Saturday, then the number of deaths was slightly lower.

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.

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