Officials say at least 19 people die after drinking contaminated wines in Russia

At least 19 people died this month of the suspects Alcohol Local officials in the West Russian Leningrad region said.

Collective death incidents of drinking homemade alternatives are cheap, which is not uncommon in Russia, which have been exposed to high levels of alcohol addiction for years.

“19 deaths after alcohol consumption were registered in the Slantsy in September,” the regional government press service said in a statement.

He added that eight cases were so far “asserting the laboratories in the name of methanol poisoning.”

Investigators said they had detained a man and a woman after the prosecutors opened a criminal case for the investigation, “many residents of the armed area were poisoned with fake alcohol.”

Earlier this week, general prosecutors sentenced two people about a decade to manufacture and sell a Fake apple juice drink 50 people were killed in 2023.

In 2016, More than 60 people died In Irkutsk in Siberia after drinking a smuggled bath oil that contains methanol.

Russia has tightened its legislation after this incident, but the cheap local lives that use alcohol alternatives are still widely available, especially in low -standardized rural areas and where the Vodka price is prohibited.

Also, contaminated alcohol had deadly consequences in other countries in recent months.

in May, More than 20 people died In India after drinking contaminated wines. The police said nine people were detained.

In January, 23 people died in Türkiye In 48 hours after drinking polluted alcohol.

In November 2024, Six tourists died In Laos of suspected methanol poisoning, government media reported.