Death toll from India toxic alcohol hits 170
China Daily | Updated: 2011-12-17 07:26
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Victims who fell sick after drinking toxic alcohol receive treatment at a hospital in Diamond Harbour, India, on Friday. Police raided illegal distilleries and dismantled dozens of liquor dens across an eastern Indian district, where 170 people died after drinking methanol-tainted bootleg alcohol. Bikas Das / Associated Press |
KOLKATA, India - The death toll from a mass poisoning in eastern India caused by toxic home-brewed alcohol rose to 170 on Friday, as police made more arrests in the case.
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