Friday, January 17, 2025 - Suspected methanol poisoning has reportedly killed 33 people in Istanbul this week after they drank tainted alcohol while 48 others received hospital treatment.
Authorities say the victims had alcohol spiked
with methanol, a toxic industrial chemical, instead of ethanol, the type found
in regular alcoholic drinks.
According to Turkey's state news agency, four people
believed to have sold contaminated alcoholic drinks were arrested for
'intentional homicide', the city's governorate said in a statement this
evening.
Since January 1, authorities have seized 29 tonnes of
adulterated alcohol in Istanbul while 64 businesses have had their licenses
revoked, the governorate added.
Store owners have blamed the government for this wave of
deaths, arguing that high taxes on alcohol encourage bootleg home distilling.
This comes less than a month after 17 people were k!lled and
22 hospitalized in Istanbul after drinking bootleg alcohol, with just seven
discharged, according to local reports.
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