Spurious liquor kills three of a family in Chhattisgarh
newdelhinews.net     Jul 24, 2008            

New Delhi News.Net Thursday 24th July, 2008 (IANS) Three members of Chhattisgarh's Pahari Korba tribal community, all from the same family, died after drinking spurious liquor in the state's Surguja district, an official said Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday night in Paraswar village in Rajpur block, about 500 km from the state capital here. 'Six members of a family consumed a local brew and began vomiting. Three of them, including a middle-aged woman, died within an hour,' P.K. Srivastava, Surguja district chief medical officer, told IANS over phone. He added that the other three people had been admitted to a government hospital and were improving. Pahari Korba tribals live in the state's Surguja, Jashpur and Korba districts. The community has been classified as one of the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTG) of India... [read full story]                    


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