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Pakistan: Toxic liquor toll touches 29

| | Oct 10, 2014, at 02:55 am
Karachi, Oct 9 (IBNS) The death toll from consuming homemade liquor in Pakistan's Karachi city has left 29 people dead, media reports said on Thursday.

"According to Emergency head Dr Seemi Jamali, the death toll climbed to 29 after five more died today at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). Twenty-five people are still being treated at the hospital out of which five are still in critical condition," Geo News reported.

"Police told that the toxic homemade liquor was bought from Sharafi Goth and Shah Latif Town where police conducted raids and arrested two suspected persons while four SHOs were also suspended on the charges of negligence towards the unrestricted sale of liquor in those areas," the news channel reported.

According to reports, investigations have showed that toxic liquor was bought from the vicinity of Malir district.

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