Heartbreaking reason people drink toxic alcohol that killed 54 in India

A man stands next to piles of wood arranged for the mass cremation of people who died after drinking illegally brewed liquor in the Kallakurichi district in India An illegal batch of toxic alcohol has killed 54 people in India – and there are fears the death toll could rise. Hundreds of people fell ill this week after consuming poisonous liquor in a village in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, around 150 miles from Chennai.

In a nutshell, it’s considered normal behaviour for men to turn to drink as a coping mechanism and alcohol is significantly less expensive on the black market Local councillor, Palraj, told the Indian Express that poor labourers in the district regularly buy the liquor in plastic bags for 60 rupees and drink it before work. ‘The men work just to drink, and the women run the family’, motorised rickshaw driver Shankar, who lives on a street where 23 people died, said.

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