The death toll from drinking toxic alcohol in a Mumbai slum climbed to 84 in the worst incident of its kind in more than a decade, police said.Another 31 people were being treated in hospital, with 13 of them described as being in a serious condition, after drinking the cheap alcohol in the Mumbai slum of Malad. This is not first time in India that people died from toxic alcohol, in 2004, 104 people had died after drinking toxic alcohol in Mumbai's Vikhroli area. Deaths from illegally brewed alcohol are common in India because the poor cannot afford licensed liquor. Illicit alcohol is often spiked with chemicals such as pesticides to increase its potency.The illicit booze often contains chemicals such as pesticides to increase its strength.
