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Q: Image caption Residents of 12 villages fell ill after consuming toxic alcohol 
  
 At least 143 people are now known to have died after consuming toxic alcohol in India's West Bengal state. 
  
 Residents of 12 villages in the South 24 Parganas district fell ill after drinking the alcohol. Ten people have been arrested. 
  
 Dozens more people are being treated in hospital, with fears the death toll could rise. Many died at home, fearing police would take action against them. 
  
 Toxic alcohol deaths are a regular occurrence in India. 
  
 Last week, the state of Gujarat brought in a new law making the illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol there punishable by death. 
  
 Ransacked 
  
 The West Bengal state government has ordered a criminal investigation into the deaths. 
  
 Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced compensation for the families of the victims, adding: "I want to take strong action against those manufacturing and selling illegal liquor." 
  
 The affected villages are in the Sangrampur, Magrahat, Usthi and Mandirbazar areas. 
  
 At the scene At the district hospital in Diamond Harbour, patients have been pouring in from the surrounding villages for the past 36 hours. As I walked through the male ward there were dozens of men lying in the corridors - their saline drips hooked on windows. There are not enough beds for them. In the morgue outside the hospital, grief-stricken relatives are waiting to take the bodies of their loved ones home. The mortuary is full so many of the bodies have been laid on the steps outside. Dr Saikat Kundu told me that many died trying to get to this hospital. Sitting on the grass outside the hospital is a woman in her 50s. Her seven-year-old grandson is sitting on her lap. She and her family brought her son here from nearby Sangrampur village. Their sole breadwinner, he is now dead like many others here. Lives destroyed by a poisoned drink 
  
 The villagers drank the locally brewed alcohol on Tuesday evening and despite falling ill many stayed at home fearing police harassment if they went to hospital, reports the BBC's Amitabha Bhattasali in Calcutta. 
  
 By Wednesday morning, a large number of people, including two children, had been admitted to hospitals in the area and the nearby city of Calcutta with symptoms of alcohol poisoning. 
  
 Medicines and doctors were rushed to the Diamond Harbour hospital in South 24 Parganas. 
  
 One doctor, Saikat Kundu, told the BBC that victims were leaving it too late to come to hospital for treatment, unaware of the severity of the problem. 
  
 He said: "Some of them are in so bad a condition that we are not getting even time to treat the patient, to run the saline [drip]... People are coming and will take one or two breaths, then the patient is dying." 
  
 Anwar Hassan Mullah told the NDTV channel that he had brought six people to hospital and all had died. 
  
 Four breweries were ransacked after the deaths began to be reported, Agence France-Presse quoted officials as saying. 
  
 Image caption Many relatives have lost their sole breadwinner 
  
 Our correspondent, Amitabha Bhattasali, says the illegal breweries are in the Gocharan area and local residents say they operate with impunity, as local authorities do not interfere. 
  
 One man in the illegal liquor business who operates in Gocharan told him this batch came from a man who was "extremely greedy" and who watered down the liquor then mixed in pesticide to give it "flavour". 
  
 He said police were regularly bribed: "There is an officer nominated for collecting the bribe. We call this person the 'dak master'. In every law enforcement office, there is one 'dak master'. If you pay him, you can carry on with your activity." 
  
 The liquor is packed in cans and delivered all over the district and other parts of the state in buses and on trains. Retailers sell sachets after filling them up with the liquor. 
  
 The illegal alcohol - commonly called desi daroo or country-made liquor in India - usually costs as little as 10 rupees (20 US cents) and the majority of the consumers are poor, daily-wage workers. 
  
 The tainted liquor can lead to fits, vomiting and death. 
  
 India has witnessed many incidents of toxic alcohol deaths. 
  
 At least 10 people killed in Tamil Nadu in February 2010 
  
 At least 30 people killed in Uttar Pradesh in September 2009 
  
 Some 107 people killed in Gujarat in July 2009 
  
 Gujarat has taken the strongest action on toxic liquor with its new law which, it says, is intended to deter those involved in the illegal trade. 
  
 Gujarat, Mizoram and Nagaland are the only states in India where alcohol is totally prohibited by law. ||||| (From top) Family members of two of the hooch victims mourn their death in Diamond Harbour on Wednesday; (bottom) a man who drank the illicit liquor being brought to the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital. Telegraph pictures Dec. 14: At least 57 people have died since last night after consuming illicit liquor in Diamond Harbour. Chiranjib Murmu, the superintendent of the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital, said over 100 people were receiving treatment in three hospitals. A district health officer said methanol, a poisonous substance, had been found in the viscera of at least 15 hooch victims. People from about 10 villages in Mograhat and Sangrampur had drank the hooch, popularly known as chepti. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said tonight: “Consumption of illicit liquor is a social disease and this has to be eradicated. I want help from everybody and let’s not politicise the issue. I have asked Subratada (public health engineering minister Subrata Mukherjee) to call an all-party meeting.” Chief secretary Samar Ghosh said at Writers’ Buildings: “A team of doctors have been sent to the area. An ambulance from Calcutta police has been sent to bring people who need to be shifted to Calcutta.” Four persons have been arrested so far from Sangrampur on the charge of running illicit liquor dens, district police chief L.N. Meena said. “We are yet to trace the kingpin, who oversees the sale of pouches of illicit liquor,” he added. Most of those who died were daily labourers and hawkers. Police sources said Noor Islam alias Khonra Badsha, 51, a Mograhat resident, was the kingpin. The police demolished 10 illicit liquor shops in Diamond Harbour tonight. Residents of the 10 affected villages said chepti was sold in pouches of 500ml and 1 litre. While a 500ml pouch costs Rs 5, a 1 litre pouch is sold for Rs 10. “The liquor pouches are brought in sacks to Diamond Harbour on trains and then ferried to the villages of Sangrampur and Mograhat,” a Sangrampur resident said. He blamed the police for the mushrooming of illicit liquor dens in the area. “An illicit liquor shop is located just opposite the Sangrampur police outpost but the law-enforcers have not taken any action despite our repeated pleas. Those running the illicit liquor dens are in league with a section of the police,” he said. A district police officer did not deny the charge. “A section of low-ranking policemen may be involved. If we find that our men are in cahoots with those trading in illicit liquor, we will take action against them,” he said. Another resident alleged some excise inspectors were also “hand-in-glove” with the illicit liquor traders. He said excise inspectors did not conduct regular raids. Excise commissioner Deb Kumar Chakraborty, who visited the Diamond Harbour hospital, denied the charge. The villager said the “easy availability” of cheap pouches was a major reason for people getting addicted to hooch. “Vendors on cycles sell hooch pouches to daily labourers when they return from work in the evening,” he added. Many of those who have been hospitalised also said illicit liquor was easily available. “I had purchased two half-litre pouches for Rs 10 while returning home last evening and drank the liquor before dinner. After midnight, I felt a pain in my throat. Then I started vomiting,” said Julfikar Saddar, 35, who has been admitted to the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital. “I earn Rs 150 a day on average. So I can easily spend Rs 10 on liquor. Sometimes, the liquor vendors come to our houses. I drink every night,” he added. Besides the Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital, several victims have also been admittted to M.R. Bangur Hospital and National Medical College Hospital. Lutsa Gayen, 22, whose husband Saifulla, 25, died after consuming hooch, said: “I used to request my husband not to drink and at least think about our only child. But he did not listen to me. I don’t know how I will bring up my son.” The state government has announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the family of each of the dead. “Although they made a mistake, the chief minister has announced a compensation for their families,” PHE minister Mukherjee said. |||||
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A bad batch of illegal liquor has killed at least 102 people in villages that fringe Calcutta. Dozens more are critically ill with alcohol poisoning. Traces of highly toxic methanol were found in the victims, who were mostly poor day laborers and rickshaw-pullers who bought the hooch in pouches for some 25 cents a liter, the BBC reports. Authorities demolished makeshift distilleries and bars after the deaths, and pledged to crack down on corrupt cops involved in the illegal liquor trade. "A section of low-ranking policemen may be involved. If we find that our men are in cahoots with those trading in illicit liquor, we will take action against them," a district police officer tells the Calcutta Telegraph. The deaths are the second tragedy to hit the Indian city in the space of a week. At least 91 people were killed in a hospital fire last Friday.