33 Dead In Bihar After Consuming Suspected Spurious Liquor
NDTV
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said he will conduct an in-depth review of the enforcement of prohibition in the state.
The death count in the latest hooch tragedy in Bihar climbed to 33 today, while arrests were made and errant officials punished in connection with sale of illicit liquor, even as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar called for a fresh campaign to dissuade people from drinking alcohol in the dry state.
However, officials in West Champaran and Gopalganj districts claimed only 25 of the deaths could be confirmed as having been caused by consumption of spurious liquor.
In West Champaran, alleged hooch trader Ram Prakash Ram, 50, besides Dhani Lal Ram, 40, Jhakkad Paswan, 64, and Vikas Ram, 25, died at a hospital.
All of them were residents of Dakshin Telhua village under the Nautan Police Station limits where local people had consumed liquor on the night preceding Diwali, the festival of lights.
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