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Indian police arrest 13 after 27 killed by poisonous liquor

Xinhua, January 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Indian police Wednesday arrested 13 people suspected of producing and selling illicit liquor which killed at least 27 people in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last weekend.

Police also seized over 2,000 liters of spurious liquor in the city of Mathura and other places in the state, said officials.

The death toll has risen to 27 in two separate incidents of villagers consuming poisonous liquor last weekend in Uttar Pradesh, while two dozen people were still in hospital for treatment and some of them were in critical conditions.

The victims were watching a local cricket match when they bought and consumed the poisonous liquor.

Poisonous liquor, made of industrial chemicals, were openly sold in the villages without being stopped by authorities.

Illicit liquor incident takes place from time to time in India. In December 2011, at least 160 were killed by poisonous liquor in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Endi