Ahmedabad hooch tragedy: Death toll mounts to 127

AHMEDABAD: Fourteen more people died in the city taking the toll in the hooch tragedy to 127 on Saturday.

"So far, 104 people have died in the hospitals, while 23 bodies were found in different places in the city," a senior official in the State Home Department said.

He said 229 people are under treatment at various government hospitals.

According to him, treatment is provided round the clock at the government hospitals where victims of spurious liquor are admitted.

The victims had consumed spurious liquor spiked with methyl alcohol and other industrial spirits on Monday night and subsequently deaths started occurring in the areas like Majur Gam, Odhav, Amraiwadi, Raipur and Rakhial.

Most of the victims, who consumed the tainted brew, were poor slum dwellers looking for cheap means of intoxication, said a senior doctor in the Civil Hospital.

Meanwhile, Opposition parties continued their agitation on the issue. Today Congress' student wing NSUI and Youth Congress gave bandh call to schools and colleges in Gandhinagar, Mehsana and Junagagadh.