Hyderabad: Nearly 97 people were hospitalized and one person died allegedly due to consumption of adulterated toddy in Vikarabad district. People from 12 villages in Vikarabad district, who consumed adultery toddy, suffering seizures and hospitalized till Saturday.
The district excise officials collected 12 toddy samples from the affected villages and sent them to the department’s lab in Hyderabad, to be tested for adulteration. Most of the affected persons are from Yerravalli, Pendlimadugu, Kamareddyguda, Narayanpur, Kothagadi and Chittigidda villages of the district. The person who died was from Pendlimadugu village. Panic prevailed in the villages as one by one people started suffering seizures from Friday evening and the numbers kept increasing on Saturday.
Following this, the excise officials shut toddy shops in all the villages and one toddy depot at Chittigidda, from where toddy samples were collected for chemical analysis. The Excise AC Mohammad Qureshi said to the media persons that all the persons who have been hospitalized are now stable and according to diagnosis of the doctors, the hospitalized persons are displaying withdrawal symptoms like nausea, vomiting, dizziness etc for which treatment is being provided.