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		</div><p>At least 84 people have died and another 200 have been hospitalised after drinking tainted alcohol in two separate incidents in India’s remote north-east region, authorities said.</p>
<p>The victims of one of the most deadly bootleg liquor-related incidents ever in India were mostly tea plantation workers in Golaghat and Jorhat districts in Assam state, government official Julie Sonowal said.</p>
<p>The workers consumed the tainted liquor laced with methyl alcohol, a chemical that attacks the central nervous system, on Thursday and started falling unconscious.</p>
<p>They were rushed to nearby hospitals and the death toll rose to 84 by Saturday, according to Assam Home Commissioner Ashutosh Agnihotri.</p>
<p>Himanta Biswa Sharma, Assam’s health minister, said around 200 people who fell sick after drinking the toxic liquor are in hospitals, some in critical condition.</p>
<p>Manab Gohain, a doctor at the Jorhat Medical College Hospital, said 34 patients have died in the past 24 hours.</p>
<p>The owner of a local brewing unit and eight others have been arrested, police official Mukesh Agarwal told reporters.</p>
<p>Mr Awarwal said police are pursuing other people believed to be connected to the racket as part of an ongoing investigation.</p>
<p>“We shall not spare anyone involved in manufacture and distribution of the tainted liquor,” Mr Sharma, the health minister, said.</p>
<p>Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India because the poor cannot afford licensed brands from government-run shops. Illicit liquor is cheap and often spiked to increase potency.</p>
<p>In India’s Uttar Pradesh state earlier this month, about 80 people died from tainted bootleg liquor.</p>
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