NEW DELHI: Seventeen laborers have died and about a dozen others are fighting for their lives in northern India after drinking toxic homemade liquor, police said on Sunday, in the latest incident of alcohol poisoning in the country.

Police in Uttar Pradesh state’s Etah district said the victims started to vomit and fall sick, complaining of severe stomach aches and blurred vision after consuming the illicit moonshine late Friday.

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