Tragedy in India: more than 100 deaths from consuming adulterated alcohol

The sale of illegal and adulterated alcohol in India is a serious problem that affects mainly rural areas or poor areas of cities

The majority of the deceased are concentrated in the most populated state of the country (EFE / Divyakant Solanki)

11/02/2019 11:45 - UPDATED: 02/11/2019 11:47
More than a hundred people have died in just 4 days in northern India for consuming adulterated alcohol. It is something sadly usual in the subcontinent and that often hits the poorest and most vulnerable population in the country. The authorities confirm that they have practiced about 300 arrests in a campaign against this scourge.

According to the Deputy Director General for Public Order of the Regional Police, Anand Kumar, the district of Saharanpur, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, is the most affected. Since Thursday, February 7, it concentrates about 60 of the deceased and between 15 and 20 hospitalized.

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It is the most populous state in India, with some 200 million inhabitants, and the police have arrested and "detained" in recent days about 300 people in connection with illegal liquor traffic. Kumar says that "right now the illicit liquor is being analyzed, I can not say conclusively what its chemical components are, but it seems that the presence of pesticides and other chemicals made it toxic".

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In the neighboring state of Uttarakhand, the district of Haridwar has already registered 26 deaths for adulterated drinks. According to Uttarakhand police, they have been prosecuted in "a border village in the Saharanpur district". Regional authorities have already arrested two people involved and track another part of the organization that has fled.

A third incident in the Kushinagar district of Uttar Pradesh, without apparent connection to the previous ones, also caused eight deaths and four hospitalizations, of which two have already been discharged. This event brings to 104 those who died in the last four days in these two northern states of the country.

Intake of illegal and adulterated alcohol in India usually occurs in rural areas or poor areas of cities due to its low price. Police sources explain that each bottle was sold for about 100 rupees (just over 1 euro, while the quarter liter was sold at between 10 and 30 rupees (approximately between 0.10 and 0.35 euros).

The liquid for sale usually contains pesticides and other substances harmful to health that have already caused more poisonings in the past. The biggest poisoning in recent years occurred in December 2011 in the state of Bengal, in eastern India, where more than 130 people died from ingesting an illegal alcohol acquired next to a railway station.

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