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KALLAKURICHI: The death toll from a batch of toxic illegal alcohol in India had risen to 56, police said Monday, with 117 people in hospital recovering from the deadly drink.Last week, hundreds of people in Kallakurichi district in the southern state of Tamil Nadu consumed a batch of locally made “arrack”, which was laced with methanol.Hundreds of people die every year in India from cheap alcohol made in backstreet distilleries, but this poisoning is one of the worst in recent years.To increase its potency, the liquor is often spiked with methanol, which can cause blindness, liver damage and death.Top district police official Rajat Chaturvedi told AFP that “56 people have died so far and aro

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