The death toll within the hooch tragedy jumped to 167 on Friday with 19 more casualties reported from three hospitals as police arrested two more persons regarding the the incident.
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More deaths are feared within the state's worst-ever illicit liquor tragedy as condition of several from the victims was critical, health department sources said.
The hooch victims including labourers, rickshaw pullers and hawkers were admitted to Diamond Harbour sub-divisional hospital in South 24 Parganas district and M.R. Bangur Hospital and National Medical Hospital in Kolkata.
About 90 victims were receiving treatment at the Diamond Harbour Hospital where the condition of two was critical.
Post-mortem on most from the bodies continues to be done and also the bodies handed over towards the respective families, police said.
Two more persons were nabbed from near Sangrampur village and nearby area in South 24 Parganas district raising the entire number of those arrested to 12, even as the owner of the hooch den Badsha Khokan was still being absconding, the police said.
Health department sources said doctors, nurses, and para-medical staff whose leaves were cancelled were working overtime to attend to the hooch victims.
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The victims fell ill after eating and enjoying spurious liquor from several illegal joints on Tuesday night. Preliminary investigations suggest that the deaths occurred because of methyl alcohol toxicity which led to respiratory and cardiac failure.
The issue figured within the state Assembly with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announcing a CID inquiry into the tragedy which happened less than a week after the major fire in AMRI hospital which left 93 dead.
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