Eight killed after consuming home-brewed liquor in Indonesia's West Java


A filepic showing Bootleg liquor victims get medical treatment in the emergency installation at Cicalengka Regional General Hospital in Bandung regency, West Java. - JP/ANN

JAKARTA: Eight people have been dead and eight others treated at a hospital after consuming liquor mixed with a health supplement in West Java province's district of Tasikmalaya, Indonesia.

Four of the eight were dead on Friday (Jan 24) and the rest died a day earlier, said Medita, a doctor at the SMC General Hospital in Tasikmalaya.

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