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| Death toll rises to more than 100 |
| Guj hooch tragedy: Death toll rises to more than 100
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| INDIA
, 10-July-2009
2:56:42 AM |
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The death toll in the hooch tragedy rose to more than 100 on Friday with the police rounding up scores of bootleggers and sealing liquor dens state-wide.
The number of fatalities could go up as about 200 people are still undergoing treatment. The new cases were reported from Odhav, Amaraiwadi, Rakhial and Raipur.
On Thursday night, Gujarat Police rounded up over 800 bootleggers and sealed scores of illicit liquor dens across the state.
Earlier, the police had detained one suspected bootlegger Harishankar Kahar alias Hariom, who allegedly supplied spurious liquor in the Majoor Gam and Odhav areas where most of the deaths have occurred.
Anger spilled out on the streets with people protesting against the police and government’s inability to curb bootlegging in a state where sale and consumption of liquor is banned. Irate residents vandalised a total of seven buses on Thursday in Odhav, Viratnagar and Amraiwadi areas and pelted police vans with stones. Demonstrations were staged and effigies of state Home Minister Amit Shah burnt across the city
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