As per latest health news, around 30 farm laborers of village of Cuttack and Khurda districts in Orissa have died after consuming toxic alcohol in form of cheap bootleg liquor. 50 other are in a critical state.
The toll of death is still going on. Many of them are admitted in the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack and other private hospitals and facing the tough situation as the time near to death.
Syrups and medicines are spiked with methyl alcohol, used in the manufacture of some medicines. Govt. has been sealed the pharmaceutical laboratory that supplied the medicines.
Rejecting the claim of hooch tragedy, district collector Girish SN said the people died after consuming spurious medicines and not liquor and many cough syrup bottles were seized from the liquor joint.
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