Mak-Mak Booze poisoned about 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

[HongKanSeng]

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Bengal hooch tragedy: 131 dead, Mamata orders inquiry
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Agencies Tags : West Bengal liquor deaths, hooch tragedy inquiry, Mamata Banerjee, nation news Posted: Thu Dec 15 2011, 14:18 hrs Kolkata:
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A tainted batch of bootlegged liquor has so far killed 131 people in West Bengal while more than 50 are still battling for their lives, Chief Medical Officer Shikha Adhikary has confirmed.

The dead are mostly labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers of Mograhat in South 24 Parganas district who drank the spurious liquor.

The state government has ordered an inquiry by the criminal investigation department while seven people were arrested.

The killer hooch claimed over 50 lives this morning. The victims were being treated at the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital, M R Bangur Hospital and at the National Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.

Most of the dead were poor labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers, who fell ill after drinking the spurious liquor from several illegal joints since Tuesday night, police said.

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The victims mostly complained of stomach pain, vomiting, chest pain and body-ache, doctors said. The postmortem of 107 bodies has been done and the bodies handed over to families, the police said.

Diamond Harbour and M R Bangur hospitals were crowded with hundreds of relatives of the victims and doctors attending to as many patients as possible.

The state health department has cancelled leave of all doctors and para-medical staff to cope with the situation.

Medical teams were rushed to the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital to assist doctors there, state minster for Sunderbans development Shyamal Mondal said.

Announcing the CID inquiry in the state Assembly, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said seven people had been arrested after preliminary inquiry into the incident.

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[HongKanSeng]

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Batch of bootleg liquor laced with toxic methanol kills 115 people in eastern India

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By Associated Press,

SANGRAMPUR, India — A batch of bootleg liquor laced with toxic methanol killed 115 people and sickened dozens more who purchased the illegal brew at small shops in eastern India, officials said Thursday. Police arrested seven suspected bootleggers.

Illegal liquor operations flourish across the slums of urban India and among the rural poor who can’t afford the more expensive alcohol at state-sanctioned shops. The hooch, often mixed with cheap chemicals, causes illness and death on occasion, but rarely creates such mass carnage.

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( Bikas Das / Associated Press ) - An Indian woman cries after her relative died from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.
( Bikas Das / Associated Press ) - People who drank toxic alcohol take saline in a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.
( Bikas Das / Associated Press ) - Indian patients take saline as they are treated after drinking toxic alcohol, in hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.
( Bikas Das / Associated Press ) - An Indian woman is comforted as she cries after hearing her relative’s death from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.

( Bikas Das / Associated Press ) - An Indian woman cries after her relative died from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.

Day laborers and other poor workers began falling ill late Tuesday after drinking cheap booze from illegal shops near the village of Sangrampur, district magistrate Naraya Swarup Nigam said.

Groups of men gathered after their shifts to drink along a road side near a railway station late Tuesday when they began vomiting, suffering piercing headaches and frothing at the mouth, Nigam said. Angry villagers later ransacked the booze shops.

Arman Seikh, 23, rushed his brother-in-law to the hospital.

“He complained of burning chest and severe stomach pain last night,” he told The Associated Press.

Police arrested seven people in connection with making and distributing the methanol-laced booze, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.

Police officials said the spurious liquor was from an illegal distillery in the village of Mograhat that supplies 70 shops in the area. Police are searching for the kingpin of the operation, who has fled, they said.

Alcohol for drinking is made from ethanol, whereas highly toxic methanol — a clear liquid that can be used as fuel, solvent or antifreeze — can induce comas and cause blindness and is deadly in high doses.

Anwar Hassan Mullah brought six sickened people to a hospital, and all of them died, he told NDTV news channel. He blamed police for turning a blind eye to bootleggers who spike their alcohol to boost its kick.

“It’s a very sad thing that this has happened,” Mullah said. “Why don’t the police stop this? I cannot understand. What connection do they have (to the bootleggers)?”

By Thursday, the death toll had skyrocketed to 115, and dozens more remained hospitalized, Nigam said.

Banerjee promised a crackdown.

“I want to take strong action against those manufacturing and selling illegal liquor,” she said, according to Press Trust of India. “But this is a social problem also, and this has to be dealt with socially also along with action.”

Despite religious and cultural taboos against drinking among Indians, 5 percent — roughly 60 million people, the population of France — are alcoholics. Two-thirds of the alcohol consumed in the country is illegal hooch made in remote villages or undocumented liquor smuggled in, according to The Lancet medical journal.

The state of Gujarat, where all liquor is banned, just approved a death penalty for making, transporting or selling spurious liquor that kills people. The strict measures were proposed after 157 people died from drinking a bad batch of liquor in the city of Ahmedabad in 2009. At least 180 people died in 2008 around the southern Indian city of Bangalore from a toxic batch of homemade liquor.

The latest incident came just days after more than 90 people were killed in a hospital fire in nearby Kolkata that led to the arrest of the facility’s directors for culpable homicide.

In the latest tragedy, victims had purchased the illegal booze for about 10 rupees (20 cents) a half liter, less than one-third the price of legal alcohol, at shops near Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Kolkata, the city formerly known as Calcutta.

Illicit liquor is a hugely profitable industry across India, where bootleggers pay no taxes and sell enormous quantities of their product, said Johnson Edayaranmula, executive director of the Indian Alcohol Policy Alliance, an organization that fights against alcohol-related problems.

The bootleggers, working in homes, hidden warehouses and even in forests, can turn 1 liter of genuine alcohol into 1,000 liters of bootlegged swill with chemicals and additives that usually cause no harm, but on occasion can lead to tragedy, he said.

Every week, one or two people across the country die from tainted liquor, he said. In 2009, at least 112 people died from a toxic brew in western India.

“People don’t know what they are drinking,” he said. “It’s all easy money, big profits. No one is bothered by the health or social consequences.”

The trade is allowed to flourish despite strict laws against spurious liquor because corrupt police, local officials and tax authorities all get a cut of the profits, he said.

“Many people are getting a share out of it, so who is going to take action against these people,” he said.

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Associated Press writer Manik Banerjee contributed to this report.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

keling so willing to get drunk even no money to buy proper booze also need to buy shitty ones.

 

[psy83]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

keling so willing to get drunk even no money to buy proper booze also need to buy shitty ones.

ahahaha.. You where know all these bootleg/moonshine liquor, It usually packs a hefty punch and gets you to the limit without drinking too much..But looks like this bunch of ah nehs got ripped off.... My friend when to a north-American country(Forgot which one)..He tried their bootleg liqueur, The next day he ended up in hospital for 2weeks for something severe.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

many rednecks make their own liquor called moon shine.

 

[Unrepented]

Almost all ktv in prc serves fake liquor, but different grade.

 

[psy83]

Almost all ktv in prc serves fake liquor, but different grade.

Sg as well... There are many ktvs(Lower end) that serve diluted liquor, That includes some small shops in sg as well.

 

[psy83]

But this is still better then PRC companies putting toxins into Babies milk powders just to earn some profits.

 

[Unrepented]

If genuine but diluted still not as bad. If imitation liquor, it's very bad for the body, that's why I sound it out to bros who visit ktvs who drink like no tomorrow.

Sg as well... There are many ktvs(Lower end) that serve diluted liquor, That includes some small shops in sg as well.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

If genuine but diluted still not as bad. If imitation liquor, it's very bad for the body, that's why I sound it out to bros who visit ktvs who drink like no tomorrow.

Are there any ktvs that are known to serve this type of liquor?

 

[psy83]

Are there any ktvs that are known to serve this type of liquor?

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Yes...I wont name them but a couple is a sultan road.

 

[halsey02]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

many rednecks make their own liquor called moon shine.

I have tasted a little of this, during my National Slavery days, just one sip! local moonshine!!

 

[HongKanSeng]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

I have tasted a little of this, during my National Slavery days, just one sip! local moonshine!!

Did doctors say that you will need a liver transplant from HOTA corpse?

No kidding. These will either send you up lorry or cost you your liver.

 

[halsey02]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

Did doctors say that you will need a liver transplant from HOTA corpse?

No kidding. These will either send you up lorry or cost you your liver.

My kidney, liver are still in good condition still, certified good by the doc. Just one tiny sip only, not drink a peg or a glass, and only once. Mind you, one tiny sip, I couldn't get on a my feet for a short while & wondered how those fellas could take a bottle.

 

[Charlie258]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

ahahaha.. You where know all these bootleg/moonshine liquor, It usually packs a hefty punch and gets you to the limit without drinking too much..But looks like this bunch of ah nehs got ripped off.... My friend when to a north-American country(Forgot which one)..He tried their bootleg liqueur, The next day he ended up in hospital for 2weeks for something severe.

When I was in University over there, the poorer American students would drink really cheap quasi-beer with odd names like 'Colt 45.' (For comparison, the normal people would drink Heineken and Budweiser). You'd get a really weird 'high' when drinking 'Colt 45' and similar products. Now you know part of the reason why there are so many people behaving strangely in the States: they just woke up after a night of drinking 'Colt 45.'

 

[Kohliantye]

Re: Mak-Mak Booze poisoned 1bout 150 Ah Neh dead more in hospitals

keling so willing to get drunk even no money to buy proper booze also need to buy shitty ones.

It is truly very sad that poor people become victims of such adulterated booze.
It is very prevalent in India. Indonesia is facing the same problem with it's illegal booze called "Cap Tikus".
The poor people there too have died as a result of partaking the deadly concoction sold by unscrupulous vendors.
The reason is simple. The rich and famous are the ones that can buy "imported" whiskies, brandies and wines.
These is due to the high taxes imposed on such booze by the government.
The poor people are not in a position to partake such expensive drinks and hence the illegal booze industry blossoms to cater to the growing demand of such drinks from poor people.
Look no further. Malaysians have also become victims of such vendors.
Once upon a time the "illegal samsu" business was flourishing in Singapore too.
With the high taxes the government impose on the sale of such drinks in Singapore, it is only a matter of time that the dormant industry will flourish once more.
A good example is the sale of contraband cigarettes here.
You know the reason WHY!!!!!