No less than 15 individuals suspected to have consumed illicit liquor have died over a interval of three days in Bihar’s Siwan and Saran districts, the place a number of others have been hospitalised with complaints of abdomen ache, nausea, and blurring of imaginative and prescient.
Officers within the Siwan and Saran administration stated that those that died consumed some “intoxicating substance”. Within the wake of the incident, Siwan police have suspended Bhagwanpur Haat police station in-charge, and Saran police have issued a present trigger discover to Masrakh police station in-charge.
Excise Commissioner Krishna Kumar has visited Siwan and Saran to analyze the matter.
In response to Siwan police, 10 deaths came about in Bhagwanpur, Madhar and Koudia during the last three days. Saran police stated 5 deaths came about within the district throughout this era. All of the victims are between 22 and 40 years outdated.
In response to family of those that died in Siwan, round 20 individuals had consumed illicit liquor on Monday and Tuesday. “Ten of them reported abdomen ache quickly after ingesting suspected illicit liquor and later died both on approach to hospital or at Siwan hospital,” stated Prakash Kumar, relative of one of many victims.
Siwan Superintendent of Police Amitesh Kumar advised reporters: “We’ve been speaking to victims’ households to know the precise causes for the deaths. Postmortem can also be being carried out. Raids are underway to arrest liquor merchants and producers.”
Saran SP Kumar Ashish stated police within the district have already arrested eight liquor merchants.
Since 2016, greater than 350 individuals have died in over two dozen hooch tragedies in Bihar. In 2022, 73 individuals died in Saran within the largest such incident seen within the state.
