Fifteen people died of alcohol poisoning in Iran after consuming bootleg booze, state media reported on Wednesday, as the number of similar deaths increases across the country. Iran
“So far, 15 people have died and 180 people have been poisoned and hospitalised,” Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the chief justice of Alborz province, where the poisonings took place, told state news agency IRNA.
The authorities in Alborz province have arrested six people and seized more than 6,000 litres of alcohol from a cosmetic factory before its distribution, Harikandi said.
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