Another person Zahoor Ahmed of Kotla Tolay Khan (Multan city), who had lost his eyesight after taking poisonous liquor last week, died on Tuesday raising the death toll to five while another Altaf Masih is still in critical condition in hospital. Four persons had died on Sunday night as they took locally manufactured toxic liquor while Yasser and Usman were relieved from hospital in Multan on Tuesday.
"At least five persons have so far been died of taking poisonous liquor till Tuesday night and another is in critical condition in hospital.
Earlier, 42 people of different areas were killed in September 2004," a police spokesman Riaz Khalid told here on Tuesday.
Those who were killed are identified as Muhammad Arshad Khan of Pul-Bararan, Jamshed Ali of Gulgasht colony, Kazim Ali of Rangpur, Zahoor Ahmed of Kotla Tolay Khan and Rab-Nawaz of Nizamabad while Altaf Masih is in critical condition. However, Yasser and Usman were relieved.
Spokesman said that Police was searching the bootlegger Amin who had supplied this toxic liquor to them. Multan Police have sent a letter to Balochistan Government for cancellation of license of an alcohol factory owned by Israr Shirazi who had also established his factory in Multan which took the lives of at least 70 people.
Meanwhile Mailsi police have seized 60 bottles of smuggled wine and arrested three bootleggers Mushtaq Masih, Dilawar Masih and Rashid Masih.