AHMEDABAD, India: At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalized in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers.
Dozens of people became ill earlier this week after drinking methanol — a poisonous form of alcohol that is sometimes used as an antifreeze — that was sold in several villages across the South Asian country's Gujarat state.
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