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Toxic alcohol has potentially killed more than a hundred people in India. The suspected cause? The illegally produced alcohol was ‘laced with methanol’. This incident, like the many others involving bootleg alcohol before it, has been likened by some to a massacre. Personal accounts paint a horrific scene   Pintu Kumar, a farmhand in northern India, recounted the incident to BDNews24. On the way back to his village, he said that he bought dozens of small plastic pouches of homemade alcohol. These pouches were not labelled, but the alcohol was incredibly strong and cheap, at about forty cents per pouch. Kumar also claimed the alcohol was also unusually milky in colour and smelled like diesel fuel. This did not stop Kumar from tearing holes in a couple of pouches and sharing them with his friends, a fact that may indicate a lack of awareness of the potential dangers. “All of them died,” said Bimlesh Kumar, a resident of the same village. “The bodies were … Read Full Article about Bootleg alcohol: India’s death toll