NEW DELHI: The death toll has climbed to 54 from consumption of tainted liquor in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, with more than 100 people still in hospital, a government official said on Saturday (Jun 22). Nearly 200 people have been treated since Wednesday for vomiting, stomach aches and diarrhoea
This story is really not being reported fairly. If it was, it would be about the fact that they are so desperately poor that the only way they can think to have even a brief escape is through alcohol, but they’re even too poor to buy legal alcohol.