30 DIED AFTER CONSUMING SPURIOUS LIQUOR IN ODISHA

30 DIED AFTER CONSUMING SPURIOUS LIQUOR IN ODISHA 8/02/2012
ODISHA NEWS:


Over 30 people killed in Odisha by consuming spurious liquor in Cuttack district and Khurda district. This tragic incidence happened in Monday evening in Barang-Mahidharpada area under the Cuttack district.


While 22 people died at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack, one succumbed at the Capital hospital in Bhubaneswar. So far eight persons have been arrested in this connection.

Deaths have taken place in several villages spread over Mahidharpada and Balianta areas of Cuttack and adjoining Khurda districts respectively. At least 50 people are now undergoing treatment at the S C B Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack.


The victims, mostly workers of a nearby brick kiln, complained of chest and eye pain after consuming liquor and all of them were taken to the hospital in critical condition. The victims and the critically affected persons had consumed the killer brew from the liquor shop owned by one Baidhar Bhoi. Baidhar ran the liquor shop at his own house at Tukuklipada under Kurang panchayat under Barang block. It was Baidhar who was first killed by the spurious liquor.


Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik orders judicial probe by retired HC judge into Mahidharapada liquor deaths. CM promises exemplary punishment for those involved in the tragedy.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA