{UAH} At least 99 dead after drinking toxic alcohol in India
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At least 99 dead after drinking toxic alcohol in India
MONDAY FEBRUARY 11 2019
An Indian official from the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force pours away illegally manufactured liquor at a unit in Tapua village in the district of Aliganj on July 18, 2016. At least 99 people have died and scores have been hospitalised in northern India after drinking toxic alcohol. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
In Summary
- News of the deaths in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has trickled in over the past three days.
- If ingested in large quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death.
- In one district of Uttar Pradesh 59 people had died after consuming toxic alcohol, police spokesman Shailendra Kumar Sharma told AFP.
By AFPNew Delhi,
At least 99 people have died and scores have been hospitalised in northern India after drinking toxic alcohol, triggering a crackdown against bootleggers, officials said Monday.
News of the deaths in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has trickled in over the past three days, with police suspecting the moonshine had been cut with methanol.
Cheap, locally-made liquor is common in parts of rural India and bootleggers often add methanol -- a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an anti-freeze -- to their product to increase its strength.
If ingested in large quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death.
TOXIC ALCOHOL
In one district of Uttar Pradesh 59 people had died after consuming toxic alcohol, police spokesman Shailendra Kumar Sharma told AFP.
In a neighbouring district a senior police officer said nine had died, adding that 66 suspected bootleggers had been arrested and samples of the liquor sent to a laboratory for testing.
Police said at least 31 people died in neighbouring Uttarakhand state and that two had been arrested on suspicion of supplying the liquor.
Newspaper reports said around 3,000 people linked with the illegal trade were arrested across Uttar Pradesh in the aftermath of the tragedy.
POOR PEOPLE
Hundreds of poor people die every year in India due to alcohol poisoning, mostly from consuming cheap alcohol.
In 2015, more than 100 people died in a Mumbai slum after drinking illegal moonshine.
Of the estimated 5 billion litres of alcohol drunk every year in India, around 40 per cent is illegally produced, according to the International Spirits and Wine Association of India.
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