Toxic alcohol kills 102 in east India—local official | Inquirer News

Toxic alcohol kills 102 in east India—local official

/ 01:58 PM December 15, 2011

KOLKATA—Toxic home-brewed alcohol thought to have been laced with the highly dangerous chemical methanol has killed 102 people in eastern India, a local official told Agence France-Presse on Thursday.

“The death toll has touched 102,” the district magistrate of 24-Parganas district in West Bengal state, Narayan Swarup Nigam, said by telephone.

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