{"id":5019,"date":"2022-07-26T16:12:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enews.sotout.com\/at-least-28-people-dead-60-sick-in-india-from-drinking-spiked-liquor-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:12:49","slug":"at-least-28-people-dead-60-sick-in-india-from-drinking-spiked-liquor-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/at-least-28-people-dead-60-sick-in-india-from-drinking-spiked-liquor-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 28 people dead, 60 sick in India from drinking spiked liquor, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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AHMEDABAD, India \u2014 At least 28 people have died and 60 others became ill from drinking altered liquor in western India, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Senior government official Mukesh Parmar said the deaths occurred in Ahmedabad and Botad districts of Gujarat state, where manufacturing, sale and consumption of liquor are prohibited. It was not immediately known what chemical was used to alter the liquor.<\/p>\n

Ashish Gupta, Gujarat state\u2019s police chief, said several suspected bootleggers who were involved in selling the spiked alcohol have been detained.<\/p>\n

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People wait to be carried into a hospital for treatment after falling sick from consuming altered liquor in Botad, India, on July 26, 2022. <\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India, where illicit liquor is cheap and often spiked with chemicals such as pesticides to increase potency.<\/p>\n

Illicit liquor has also become a hugely profitable industry across India where bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product to the poor at a cheap rate.<\/p>\n

In 2020, at least 120 people died after drinking tainted liquor in India\u2019s northern Punjab state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n
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