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		</div><p>At least 19 people have died and another six have been blinded after drinking tainted liquor in northern India over the weekend, police said.</p>
<p>Another 50 people fell ill after consuming the home-brewed liquor on Friday and were being treated in hospitals in Etah district in Uttar Pradesh state, senior police officer Ajay Shankar Rai said.</p>
<p>The Press Trust of India news agency put the death toll at 21.</p>
<p>Mr Rai said the victims bought the liquor from a village shop on Friday evening and started falling ill and dying.</p>
<p>The shop owner, who has been arrested, was selling a pouch of tainted liquor for a mere 15 rupees (20p), six times cheaper than the legal drink, he said.</p>
<p>Most of the victims were poor farmers and labourers, looking for a cheap means of intoxication.</p>
<p>India&#8217;s poor often buy cheap home-brewed liquor made of syrups and medicines that are spiked with methyl alcohol and other industrial spirits to give it a kick.</p>
<p>District Magistrate Ajay Yadav ordered an investigation, but an excessive use of methyl alcohol in the liquor appears to have caused the deaths.</p>
<p>State authorities have suspended six officials, including four policemen, for allowing the sale of illicit liquor in Etah district, nearly 240 kilometres (150 miles) south-west of Lucknow, the Uttar Pradesh state capital.</p>
<p>Illicit liquor is a hugely profitable industry across India, with manufacturers operating from homes, hidden warehouses and even forests.</p>
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