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Agence France-Presse

At least 25 people have died after drinking toxic alcohol in northern India, police said on Sunday.
Police have arrested 10 men for selling the alcohol in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.
“So far 25 persons have died and a few others are admitted in the hospital and are undergoing treatment. Ten persons have been arrested,” Ajab Singh, a police spokesman, said.
Local media reported that the alcohol was bought on Thursday from a shop run by two brothers.
Alcohol shops in the state had been closed under a coronavirus lockdown imposed to combat a devastating wave of infections. About 160,000 people have died from Covid-19 countrywide since April 1.

But as case numbers started to slow, Uttar Pradesh allowed alcohol sales to resume in some districts on May 11 with restricted hours.
While it is unclear how the alcohol in the Uttar Pradesh case was produced, hundreds of people die every year in India from cheap alcohol made in backstreet distilleries, affordable for even the poorest.
Of the estimated 5 billion litres of alcohol consumed every year in the country, around 40 per cent is illegally produced, according to the International Spirits and Wine Association of India.
The alcohol is often spiked with methanol – a highly toxic form of alcohol sometimes used as an antifreeze – to increase its potency. If ingested, methanol can cause blindness, liver damage and death.
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Last year, 98 people died in the northern state of Punjab after drinking bootleg booze.
And in 2019, some 150 people died in northeastern Assam state, most of them tea plantation workers.


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Alcohol shops in the state had been closed under a coronavirus lockdown imposed to combat a devastating wave of infections
As case numbers started to slow, Uttar Pradesh allowed alcohol sales to resume in some districts on May 11 with restricted hours



Local media reported that the alcohol was bought on Thursday from a shop run by two brothers.


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