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- ↑ "Toxic Homemade Alcohol Kills Scores in India". The New York Times. 11 February 2019.
- ↑ "Toxic alcohol kills dozens in northern India". BBC. 15 February 2019.
- 1 2 "Deadly brew: At least 76 people die in India after drinking bootleg liquor". Washington Post. 10 February 2019.
- 1 2 Gupta, Swati; Suri, Manveena (14 February 2019). "Crackdown on illegal bootleggers after 80 die from toxic hooch in India". CNN.
- ↑ Kumar, Manish; Kaeley, Nidhi; Nagasubramanyam, Vempalli; Bhardwaj, Bharat Bhushan; Kumar, Subodh; Kabi, Ankita; Arora, Poonam; Dhar, Mridul (2019). "Single center experience of managing methanol poisoning in the hilly state of Uttarakhand: A cross sectional study". International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science. 9 (4): 172–176. doi: 10.4103/IJCIIS.IJCIIS_49_19 . ISSN 2229-5151. PMC 6927134 . PMID 31879603.
- ↑ "India: more than three dozen die in bootleg liquor poisoning". The Guardian. Associated Press. 9 February 2019.
- ↑ "Bootleg liquor kills scores in India". Deutsche Welle. 9 February 2019.