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Bengal Liquor Deaths

Updated: Dec 15, 2011, 05:21 PM IST
Villagers carry the body of their relative who died after drinking toxic alcohol to be cremated during the funeral in Sangrampur village near Diamond Harbour, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Villagers carry the body of their relative who died after drinking toxic alcohol to be cremated during the funeral in Sangrampur village near Diamond Harbour, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Indians carry the body of a relative who died after drinking toxic alcohol to be cremated during a funeral in Sangrampur village near Diamond Harbour, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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A patient is surrounded by relatives as he takes oxygen and saline while being treated in a hospital after drinking toxic alcohol in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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People who drank toxic alcohol take saline in a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Indian patients take saline as they are treated after drinking toxic alcohol, in hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, officials said.(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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An Indian woman is comforted as she cries after hearing her relative's death from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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An Indian woman is comforted as she cries after hearing her relative's death from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said.(AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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An Indian woman cries after her relative died from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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An Indian woman cries after her relative died from toxic alcohol outside a hospital in Diamond Harbour, near Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A tainted batch of bootleg liquor has killed scores and sent dozens more to the hospital in villages outside Kolkata, officials said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Relatives of victims gather at Diamond Harbour hospital, after dozens died and more than a hundred fell sick drinking bootleg liquor in the village of Sangrampur, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from Kolkata, India, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. Cheap bootleg liquor, which is often sold to slum dwellers, kills dozens of people every year in India. (AP Photo)