Source: BBC News
Doctors in India’s West Bengal state are battling to save the remaining victims of toxic alcohol poisoning that has now killed 160 people.
A total of 204 people are still being treated in hospital, most of them critically ill.
Residents of 12 villages in the South 24 Parganas district fell ill after drinking the alcohol on Tuesday night. Ten people have been arrested.
Officials said the fuel methanol had been found in at least 20 victims.
The BBC’s Amitabha Bhattasali in Calcutta says there is a shortage of medicine in hospitals and many patients have complained that they are being asked to buy their medicine from outside.
Most victims are poor villagers who are unable to afford it.