Tainted alcohol leaves children without fathers
source: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/13/india.alcohol.deaths/index.html
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NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Pushpa Kagda weeps as she tries to understand what has just happened to her family. She is the mother of a little boy and she is pregnant, but Pushpa no longer has a husband to help raise her children.
At 26 years old she has just become a widow. She is not alone. Beside her sits her two sisters-in-law who suffer in silence. They are newly widowed, too.
Their husbands, all brothers, died within days of each other. Their deaths came because each one of them drank from the same poisonous brew. Police say tainted alcohol was being sold in their neighborhood.
The elder brother was the first to drink and died soon after. Pushpa's husband was next.
"His elder brother died. He was affected by it and went and got drunk on alcohol," Pushpa said as tears rolled down her cheeks. "After he came back, he wasn't feeling well. There was foam coming out of his mouth and we admitted him to the hospital."
It was too late. Pushpa's husband followed his brothers to the grave.
At 26 years old she has just become a widow. She is not alone. Beside her sits her two sisters-in-law who suffer in silence. They are newly widowed, too.
Their husbands, all brothers, died within days of each other. Their deaths came because each one of them drank from the same poisonous brew. Police say tainted alcohol was being sold in their neighborhood.
The elder brother was the first to drink and died soon after. Pushpa's husband was next.
"His elder brother died. He was affected by it and went and got drunk on alcohol," Pushpa said as tears rolled down her cheeks. "After he came back, he wasn't feeling well. There was foam coming out of his mouth and we admitted him to the hospital."
It was too late. Pushpa's husband followed his brothers to the grave.
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nursediesel
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Maybe everyone should avoid any kind of alcohol sold by roaming vendors, or don't drink at all. This kind of stuff used to happen here but not for a long time. India must educate the poor to avoid these situations.
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nursediesel
