Kolkata: At least 162 people have been died after drinking methanol-tainted bootleg alcohol in eastern India.
Police were raiding illegal distilleries and dismantling dozens of liquor dens Friday across an eastern Indian district where 162 people have died after drinking methanol-tainted bootleg alcohol.
According to report, Police have arrested twelve people in connection with making and distributing the cheap, illicit liquor, but police were still searching for the kingpin of the operation.
Many of the victims — day laborers, street hawkers, rickshaw drivers — had gathered along a road near a railway station Tuesday after work to drink the illicit booze they bought for 10 rupees a half liter, less than a third the price of legal alcohol.
They later began vomiting, suffering piercing headaches and frothing at the mouth, and by Friday morning 162 had died and dozens more were in critical condition.
Nearly every home has at least one victim in the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers south of Kolkata.
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