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As many as 17 people have died after allegedly consuming spurious liquor in Punjab's Amritsar district, police said on Tuesday.
They said six people have been hospitalised with complications caused by hooch.
The deaths were reported in Bhangali, Patalpuri, Marari Kalan and Therewal villages on Monday night, said officials. A police probe has revealed that methanol was procured in bulk online to prepare the hooch.
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann said those responsible for the deaths of innocent people in the villages in Majitha would not be spared. "These are not deaths, these are murders," he said in an X post.
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