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India toxic alcohol: At least 130 tea workers dead from bootleg drink - Published At least 130 people have died and more than 200 are being treated in hospital after drinking toxic bootleg alcohol in north-eastern India, officials said. Some 35 people were reported dead in the state of Assam on Sunday, days after about 100 people died in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Ten people have been arrested over the bootleg drink, a police official said. There were many women among the victims, who all worked on tea plantations. An inquiry has been ordered into the tragedy. The death toll is believed to be the highest since a 2011 case in West Bengal, where more than 170 people died after ingesting bootleg alcohol. The first victims died on Thursday, according to the administrator of the Golaghat district in Assam, Dhiren Hazarika. Golaghat district Superintendent of Police Pushkar Singh told the BBC Hindi service that police had found the home where the toxic liquor was made and had recovered one and a half litres (2.5pts) of it. Doctors at the hospitals where the victims were being treated were baffled by the ingredients used in the illegal alcohol, which has caused organ failure. An expert team from the city of Guwahati is being brought in analyse the contents of the drink "The people came to the hospital with severe vomiting, extreme chest pain and breathlessness," Dr Ratul Bordoloi, joint director of Golaghat's health department, told the AFP news agency. One worker who was undergoing treatment at Golaghat Hospital told the BBC that he had been at a tea plantation on Thursday when the purchase the alcohol. "I had bought half a litre of wine and drank it before eating," he said. "Initially, everything was normal, but after some time my head started hurting. The headache grew so much that I could not eat or sleep." The man felt restless until the morning, when he started getting chest pain. His wife took him to the tea plantation hospital and he was referred to the district hospital. Deaths from illegally produced alcohol, which is much cheaper than branded spirits, are common in parts of rural India. Bootleggers often add methanol - a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an anti-freeze - to their mixture to increase its strength. If ingested in even small quantities, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death. State police said two excise department officials were suspended for failing to take adequate precautions over the sale of the alcohol.
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विषाक्त मदिराः भारतको आसामका चिया बगानमा ७० जनाको मृत्यु भारतको पूर्वोत्तर राज्य आसाममा विषाक्त मदिरा सेवन गर्दा कम्तीमा ७० जनाको मृत्यु भएको अधिकारीहरूले बताएका छन्। दुई सयभन्दा बढी व्यक्तिलाई उपचारका लागि एउटा अस्पतालमा भर्ना गरिएको छ। पीडितमा महिलाहरू पनि छन्। उनीहरू सबै आसामको चिया बगानमा काम गर्ने मानिसहरू हुन्। स्थानीय सञ्चारमाध्यममा प्रकाशित विवरणहरूका अनुसार मृत्यु हुनेहरूको सङ्ख्या बढ्न सक्छ। पीडितमा स्वास्थ्य समस्या दुई हप्ताअघि अरू दुई राज्य उत्तर प्रदेश र उत्तराखण्डमा पनि विषाक्त मदिराका कारण झण्डै एक सय जनाको मृत्यु भएको थियो। आसामको गोलाघाट र जोरहाट जिल्लामा भएका बगानमा काम गर्ने मानिसहरूले विषाक्त मदिरा सेवन गर्न पुगेका थिए। गोलाघाटका प्रमुख प्रशासक धिरेन हजारिकाले त्यस्तो मदिरा सेवन गर्नेहरूमध्ये पहिलो व्यक्तिको मृत्यु बिहीवार भएको बताएको समाचारसंस्था एएफपीले जनाएको छ। गोलाघाट जिल्लामा मात्रै ५८ जनाको मृत्यु भएको प्रहरी अधिकारी पुष्कर सिंहले बीबीसीलाई बताए। अर्का स्रोतका अनुसार १२ जनाको मृत्यु जोरहाट जिल्लामा भएको हो। गोलाघाट स्वास्थ्य विभागका सहनिर्देशक डा. रतुल बोरदोलोईका अनुसार पीडितहरू बान्ता गर्दै र छाती दुख्ने एवम् सास फेर्न गाह्रो हुने गम्भीर समस्यासहित अस्पताल पुगेका थिए। गोलाघाट अस्पतालमा उपचार गराइरहेका एक व्यक्तिका अनुसार उनी बिहीवार चिया बगानमा थिए। छानबिन गर्न समिति "मैले आधा लिटर मदिरा किनेर खाना खानुअघि पिएको थिएँ। पहिला त सबै कुरा सामान्य थियो, तर केही समयपछि मेरो टाउको दुख्न थाल्यो।" "यति धेरै टाउको दुख्न थाल्यो कि मैले खान वा सुत्न नै सकिनँ।" बिहानसम्म उनलाई छटपटी भयो र उनको छाती दुख्न थाल्यो। त्यसपछि उनकी श्रीमतीले उनलाई बगानको अस्पताल लगिन्। त्यहाँबाट जिल्ला अस्पताल पठाइयो। भारतमा अवैध रूपमा उत्पादित सस्तो मदिराबाट हुने मृत्यु सामान्य मानिन्छ। अधिकारीहरूका अनुसार सो घटनाको छानिबिन गर्न एउटा समिति बनाइएको छ। राज्य प्रहरीका अनुसार उनीहरूले एक जनालाई अवैध मदिरा बेचेको आरोपमा समातेको छ। त्यस्तो मदिरा बिक्रीवितरण रोक्न नसकेको भन्दै दुईजना अधिकारीहरूलाई पनि निलम्बन गरिएको एएफपीले जनाएको छ।