21 people were killed, 10 hospitals after drinking polluted wines in India; Multiple arrests

The authorities said on Tuesday that twenty -one people died in India and 10 people in the hospital after drinking contaminated wines. The police said nine people were detained.

Hundreds of people dies every year in India from drinking cheap alcohol made in the rear distillation factories. Bootleggers sell huge amounts of reduced prices for the poor, without paying taxes to the government.

To increase its effectiveness, alcohol is often bounced with methanol that can cause blindness, liver damage and death.

The last accident occurred late on Monday after the villagers in the Amritsar region, in the northern Punjab state, drank the liquor in methaneol.

“Now the death toll is 21 years old, and 10 are acceptable in hospitals,” a public relations official in the Amritsar region said in a statement.

Nine people, Punjab police were arrested He said in a post on social media.

The Post said that the investigation is underway to “reveal the entire method of operation and to get to know all the concerned.”

Punjab Prime Minister Bahwanant Man said officials would be punished.

“We all stand united in sadness – and in our determination to ensure justice and such tragedies are prevented in the future,” Punjab Police said.

Last year, 53 people were killed yet Satellite In the southern state of Tamil Nadu.

In December 2022, More than 30 people died In the Eastern Indian state of Bihar after the consumption of polluted alcohol. In July 2002, 28 people died 60 patients after drinking alcohol in Western Gujarat, where alcohol was banned.

Last November in Laos, Six tourists died From the suspected methanol poisoning, government media reported.