Similar incident last year saw 100 people die after drinking tainted liquor. Story out of Uttar Pradesh, India:
At least 19 people have died and another six have been blinded after drinking home-brewed liquor in northern India, police said.
Another 50 people fell ill after consuming the tainted liquor over the weekend and were being treated in hospitals in Etah in the Uttar Pradesh state.
Senior police officer Ajay Shankar Rai said the victims bought the liquor from a village shop on Friday evening and started falling ill and dying.
The shop owner, who has been arrested, was selling a pouch of tainted liquor for a mere 15 rupees (20p), six times cheaper than legal drink, he said.
Most of the victims were poor farmers and labourers, looking for a cheap means of intoxication.
India's poor often buy cheap home-brewed liquor made of syrups and medicines that are spiked with methyl alcohol and other industrial spirits to give it a kick.
District Magistrate Ajay Yadav ordered an investigation, but an excessive use of methyl alcohol in the liquor appears to have caused the deaths. Cont.
Story from - Evening Standard
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