Patna: At least 13 people died and several others were taken ill after consuming spurious liquor in Bihar's Gopalganj district, reports said on Wednesday.
Family members of the victims alleged that all of them died after consuming illicit liquor. They also alleged that the local administration failed to take action against the hooch mafia despite despite having information about them.
However, the Bihar government has denied reports of hooch tragedy in the state, suggesting they may died of illness.
District Magistrate Rahul Kumar said, "The cause of their deaths is yet to be determined as postmortem reports are awaited. But preliminary inquiry revealed that all of them were not well for the last few days."
Reports of a hooch tragedy first came in on Tuesday when six people died in Gopalganj district. On Wednesday, reports said seven more people died after consuming spurious liquor.
In April, Nitish imposed a blanket ban on production and consumption of liquor in the entire state, a promise he had made while campaigning for the state polls.
He had then assured that action would be initiated against officials for failing to enforce the liquor ban.
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