(TIMES OF INDIA) Calcutta – The state government on Thursday ordered a CID investigation into the hooch tragedy, while seven persons were arrested in this connection.
“111 hooch victims so far died in three hospitals’, official sources said.
The killer hooch claimed over 50 lives on Thursday morning in Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital, MR Bangur Hospital and at National Medical college and hospital in Kolkata where all the victims were taken for treatment since Wednesday.
Most of the dead were poor labourers, rickshaw-pullers and hawkers, who fell ill after consuming the spurious liquor from several illegal joints since Tuesday night, police said.