Several people die after consuming spurious liquor in villages in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, with authorities reporting deaths and hospitalisations. The incidents occur in and around Banda tehsil, about 30 km from the district headquarters.
According to The Hindu, six people die and five others are hospitalised after consuming the liquor in two villages of Banda tehsil. Scroll.in reports a higher toll, saying 11 people die and that another 80 people from four to five villages fall ill and are admitted to hospitals. The differences in figures across outlets may reflect updates from ongoing medical assessments, differing time windows of reporting, or variations in the number of affected villages identified at the time of publication.
Both reports describe the same underlying event: people in multiple nearby villages consume illicit alcohol and develop symptoms that require hospital care. Authorities are dealing with the aftermath and investigating the source of the liquor.
