Chennai: The toll in Sunday’s twin spurious liquor tragedies in Tamil Nadu rose to 17, with the death of three more people since last evening.
The incidents took place at Ekkiyarkuppam fishing hamlet at Marakkanam in Villuppuram district and in Chengalpattu district.
While nine people died in the Marakkanam incident, five had died in the Chengalpattu tragedy.
Police sources said three more people, who had consumed the liquor in the Marakkanam incident and undergoing treatment, died at the Villuppuram Government Medical College Hospital, Mundiyambakkam since last evening.
With this the number of deaths in the Marakkanam tragedy rose to 12. The sources said 37 others were undergoing treatment at the Villuppuram hospital, three at Jipmer in Puducherry and one at Puducherry Government General hospital.
Yesterday, Chief Minister M.K.Stalin visited those undergoing treatment at the hospitals in Villuppuram and Chengalpattu and after reviewing the stations, suspended Villuppuram District SP and transferred Chengalpattu distrist SP, while suspending two PEW DSPs of the two districts.
Mr Stalin also announced that the probe into the twin liquor tragedies would be transferred to the CB-CID as use of methanol, which was used as a raw material in industries, in manufacturing the spurious liquor, has led to the deaths.
