Labourers binge on hooch they found dumped, 4 die

AGRA: Unaware that the stash they found dumped by a canal was the spurious batch that has till now killed 87 people in and around Aligarh, at least 30 labourers from Rohera village in UP drank from the 20-odd cartons of liquor they found on Wednesday. Within hours, they started dying. By Thursday night, four of them were confirmed to have died because of the hooch and the deaths of two others were attributed to Covid-19 and Hepatitis B. Twenty-four others are critical.
“Six people have died so far, three of whom were brought dead,” said Prof Haris Manzoor Khan, medical superintendent of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College. SDM Praveen Yadav confirmed the deaths but added that all were not because of the hooch. “Four of them died because of spurious liquor,” he said.