11 die after drinking bootleg alcohol in Indonesia
9 April 2018 3:15 AM IST
Jakarta: Eleven Indonesians died on Sunday and several others are critically ill after drinking bootleg liquor, police said, days after the death of 24 others from illicit alcohol.
The latest victims were among 27 people admitted to hospital after sampling homemade alcoholic drinks in Cicalengka district in West Java province, provincial police spokesman Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko said.
"We are investigating the shop that sold the illegal liquor," he said, adding no one had yet been arrested.
In a separate case over the past week, 24 people have died in the capital Jakarta after drinking homemade liquor sold by a herbal drink seller.
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