Comments by "Happy Melon" (@happymelon7129) on "Sixth tourist dies from tainted alcohol in Laos | DW News" video.
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Not only in Laos , happen everywhere also.
As a tourist need to be careful .
India
See also: List of alcohol poisonings in India
India has a thriving moonshine industry, and methanol-tainted batches have killed over 2,000 people in the last 3 decades, including:
1976: 100 people died in Gujarat.
1980: 44 died in Haryana
1981: 1981 Karnataka liquor deaths
1982: Vypeen alcohol poisonings
1986: 108 died in Gujarat.
1987: 200 died in Gujarat.
1988: 32 people died in Gujarat.
1992: 1992 Odisha liquor deaths
2001: 27 deaths in Bombay.[17]
2004: In December 2004, 87 people died in Mumbai.[18]
2006: 22 people killed in Ganjam district, Orissa.
2008: 2008 Karnataka-Tamil Nadu hooch tragedy
2009
27 people killed in Kolkata, West Bengal
29 people killed in Uttar Pradesh
2009 Gujarat alcohol poisonings
>30 deaths, Delhi.[17]
>30 deaths, Orissa Bolangir.[17]
2010
35 people killed in Ghaziabad and Bulandshahr districts, Uttar Pradesh
23 people killed in Malappuram district, Kerala
10 deaths, Uttar Pradesh.[17]
2011
17 dead in Andhra Pradesh, August.[19]
Sangrampur methanol tragedy
2012
17 deaths, Andhra Pradesh.[17]
31 deaths, Orissa.[17]
18 people died in Gurdaspur district of Punjab in a possible methanol-poisoning incident. The Chemical Analyzer and Histo-pathology department took care of the bodies and will ascertain the exact cause of death.[20]
2013: 40 people died in Azamgarh district, Uttar Pradesh.[21]
2015: 2015 Mumbai alcohol poisoning incident
2017: On 3 January at least 6 people died at Ramgopalpur,[22] West Bengal
2019
In February 2019, 100 people in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand died by drinking toxic alcohol.[23]
2019 Assam alcohol poisonings
2022: 2022 Gujarat alcohol poisoning
2024: 2024 Kallakurichi alcohol poisonings
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Philippines
The Luzon lambanog deaths started to occur in late November 2018 in separate places in the Philippines after drinking arrack (locally known in the Philippines as lambanog) in separate places in the Philippines. The case started on November 29 when the residents from Calamba, Laguna drank lambanog and began to experience symptoms such as stomach cramps, resulting in hospital admission; they subsequently died.[54] People who consumed lambanog experienced other symptoms such as nausea, chest pains, and blurry vision. Meanwhile, another four persons, who were tricycle drivers, were reported to have died after they consumed arrack and thirteen others were hospitalized in Quezon City.[55]
In December 2019, at least 23 people died while around 300 were hospitalized after drinking methanol-laced palm liquor, locally known as lambanog, in the provinces of Laguna and Quezon.[56][57] Separate incidents of methanol poisoning involving lambanog were also reported in 2018 which caused at least 21 deaths.[58]
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