[Bangla Daily Star] At least 10 people died and three were hospitalised in a span of 24 hours due to drinking of toxic liquor at a village in Osmani Nagar till yesterday. About 15 to 20 people consumed the poisonous liquor at Paschim Goalabazar between Friday afternoon and yesterday afternoon and fell sick within the next few hours, said Nirmalendu Chakravarty, officer-in-charge of Osmani Nagar Police Station.
The patients were severely vomiting and had other complications when they arrived, hospital sources said.