Illegally-made alcohol has killed not less than
99 people, while rendering scores to various
degree of sickness in a slum in Mumbai, Indian,
authorities have confirmed.
According to Dhananjay Kulkarni, spokesman of
the Mumbai police, 46 people have been
hospitalised, with a bulk of them in critical
condition.
“More than 150 have consumed this alcohol.
The death toll may rise,” he said, adding that
eight police officials had been suspended for
suspected negligence.
According to CNN, the incident took place near
Laxmi Nagar, a large slum in India’s financial
capital, Mumbai.
Four other men and two women had been
booked over the deaths, on charges including
culpable homicide, poisoning and abetting a
crime.
In Nigeria, the federal government has placed a
ban on the consumption of local gin, popularly
known as ‘Ogogoro’, following the death of at
least 70 people in Rivers state.
“In the beginning, it started somewhere in Woji
and by the time we had the last count, we had
about 80 persons tracked down, who took the
drink, out of which 70 had died,” Nnanna
Onyekwere, director public health services of
the Rivers state ministry of health said on
Sunday .
“The rest survived while two had visual
impairment as a result of the drink.”
Though relatively new in Nigeria, deaths from
cheap, illegally-brewed liquor often containing
toxic methanol are not new in India.
More than 160 people died from drinking a bad
batch of local gin, also called ‘moonshine’, in
West Bengal in 2011, with at least another 25
people dead and 125 hospitalised from the
consumption in Uttar Pradesh.
In both countries, most locals who take these
drinks take it to numb their senses and “get on
with their hectic” days, especially in rainy
seasons.


http://www.thecable.ng/like-nigeria-local-gin-kills-99-india

Hmmmm........and GEJ didn't see its side effects? I seriously believe now dat he's taking it.

Ogogorophobia...

They shld better find an alternative o. Cos na wetin Man pikin dey take shine eye for morning!