NAWABSHAH: Five people died after consuming locally made liquor in Nawabshah on Wednesday night and Thursday, police and hospital sources said.

Sources in the Peoples Medical College Hospital, Nawabshah, said that the five men — Pappu Abbasi, Naveed Chandio, Akram Jat, Shahzad Jat and Younis Abbasi — were brought to the hospital in a precarious condition from different parts of the old city areas at different timings.

They said that the initial investigation by doctors who examined them suggested that they had fallen unconscious after consuming poisonous liquor. Three of them, Pappu Abbasi, Younis Abbasi and Naveed Chandio, died during treatment. The other two patients, Akram Jat and Shahzad Jat, were referred to a Karachi hospital but they died on the way, the sources aid.

Published in Dawn, August 28th, 2015

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