Deaths Mount to 150 in India’s Second Toxic Liquor Tragedy This Month

Deaths Mount to 150 in India’s Second Toxic Liquor Tragedy This Month
The wife of a tea plantation worker, who consumed bootleg liquor, looks on as she stands next to her husband being treated, in a corridor of a government-run hospital in Golaghat in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Feb. 23, 2019. Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters
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GUWAHATI, India—At least 150 people have died from drinking toxic bootleg liquor in a northeastern state of India, the second such tragedy in the country this month, with many more hospitalized as authorities try to pinpoint the source and round up perpetrators.

The figure is based on reports from three hospitals in the eastern part of the state, Assam. Authorities had estimated the number of dead at 84 on y.