toxic liquor death toll climbs
Mumbai: the death toll from lndia's latest incident of mass alcohol poison-ing following the consumption of toxic home made liquor rose to 74 yesterday,Mumbai police said. Shamanjay kulkarni,police deputy commissioner in the west-ern India city,said the number who had died from drinking the moonshine had increased form 53 late on Friday. "Seventy-four have now died and 21 are receiving treatment in hospital."he said, adding that the toll was expected to increase further. Victims first started to fall ill on Wednesday morning after consuming the illegal booze and patients were still being admitted to hospital yesterday, the commissioner said. Five people have so far been arrested for dis-tributing and selling the alcohol in a slum in the suburb of malad west, in the north of the city