Officials disclosed to reporters on Thursday that not less than 34 people have died with over 100 hospitalised after consuming toxic bootleg alcohol in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said, as reported by the Press Trust of India news agency, that the deadly mix of locally brewed arrack drink was laced with poisonous methanol.<\/p>\n
According to a statement from Stalin’s office, He said arrests had been made over the deaths and warned that such crimes \u201cruin society and will be suppressed with an iron fist.\u201d
\nAuthorities have also suspended a senior police official and ten members of the state\u2019s prohibition enforcement wing \u2013 which oversees the smuggling of illicit alcohol in the state \u2013 for negligence, the BBC reported.
\nHundreds of people die every year in India from cheap alcohol made in backstreet distilleries.<\/p>\n
To increase its potency Bootleggers often add methanol \u2013 a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an anti-freeze \u2013 to their mixture.
\nIf ingested in even small quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage, and death.
\nIn the Tamil Nadu case, more than 100 people were hospitalised according to a top government official in the state\u2019s Kallakurichi district, M.S. Prasanth, quoted by Indian media.<\/p>\n
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