Maharashtra: Liquor unavailable in Yavatmal due to lockdown, 3 die after gulping sanitizer
In a shocker, no less than three individuals died after they drank hand sanitizer as liquor was unavailable owing to the statewide lockdown, an official mentioned right here on Saturday.
The incident occurred in Vani village of the district late on Friday after which the trio was admitted with complaints of burns in the mouth, abdomen, vomiting, giddiness and later succumbed in a hospital.
According to Vani Police Station Investigating Officer D. B. Bhadikar, the three males reportedly ran out of their liquor shares as all wine-shops are shut.
“As per preliminary probe, they could not get liquor from anywhere, so they opted to drink a bottle of hand sanitizer which also contains a substantial amount of alcohol. They were rushed for treatment to the local hospital early today where they succumbed,” Bhadikar advised IANS.
Two of them have been recognized as Datta Langewar, 42, Sunil Dengde, 35 and the id of the third sufferer has but to be ascertained, he mentioned.
The distraught relations of the deceased trio have been seen crying exterior the hospital because the police tried to stop overcrowding there.
The Vani Police have lodged an unintentional dying case, the our bodies have been despatched for post-mortem and additional investigations are underway.
