Toxic liquor kills 131 in eastern India
China Daily | Updated: 2011-12-16 08:14
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Family members mourn for their relatives, who died after consuming bootleg liquor, outside a hospital at Diamond Harbour, a town about 50 km south of West Bengal's capital Kolkata, on Thursday. Rupak De Chowdhuri / Reuters |
KOLKATA, India - A batch of home-brewed liquor thought to have been laced with the highly toxic chemical methanol has killed 131 people in eastern India, an official said on Thursday.
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