By AFPMore by this AuthorTwenty-five members of a tribe of Indian tea pickers, including 15 women, died within hours of drinking poisoned alcohol, police said Friday. The deaths in the northeastern state of Assam came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states. They died within hours of consuming the bootleg alcohol. Earlier this month, about 100 people died in northern India after drinking homemade alcohol. Hundreds of mainly poor people die each year in the South Asian country from tainted liquor, which normally costs just a few US cents a bottle.

Source: Daily Nation February 22, 2019 14:03 UTC