With five more people losing their lives on Friday, the administration suspended the SHO and local chowkidar of the Maker police station under whose jurisdiction the incident occurred in Noniya Tola village of Bihar.
The death toll in the alleged hooch tragedy in Bihar’s Chhapra rose to nine on Friday as two more people succumbed. As shattered family members mourn the dead, the police are on the hunt for the absconding accused.
Seven die in hooch tragedy: At least seven people have died and 15 others fallen ill, some of them losing their eyesight, in yet another suspected case of hooch tragedy in dry Bihar, officials said on Friday.