AP, Lucknow :
A bad batch of bootleg liquor killed at least 28 people and sent 160 others to hospitals in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said Tuesday.
Many of the victims were among more than 200 people who had gathered to watch a cricket match Sunday evening in a village about 30 kilometers southwest of the state capital, Lucknow, government official Anil Garg said.
By midday Tuesday, 28 people had died, including 11 in another village farther southwest, police officer Mukul Goel said.
Doctors in Lucknow said that some of those hospitalised were in serious condition and relying on artificial ventilation, and that some had lost their eyesight.
