Beijing time:2021-10-11 01:05
[NTD News October 11, 2021 Beijing time]Russians have long been known as the most “alcoholic” country in the world. In 2016, 77 people died in search of the pleasure of alcohol. A few days ago, it was reported that 34 people died after drinking fake alcohol containing toxic methanol. The central local authorities stated on the 10th that they were providing food in exchange for possible fake alcohol in the hands of the people.
About 1,500 kilometers southeast of the capital Moscow, in the Orenburg area at the southern end of the Urals, 67 people fell in the past week after drinking adulterated wine.
TASS News Agency (TASS) quoted a statement from local authorities reporting that 34 of them died unfortunately, 7 were in critical condition, and 4 were using respirators.
After some people died from alcoholism this week, investigators from the Orenburg region launched a criminal investigation, and 10 people have been detained so far. (Click to watch related video)
The test results showed that the victim had drunk fake alcohol containing methanol. Unlike the ethanol contained in general alcoholic beverages, methanol is very toxic, and even a very small dose can cause blindness.
In some cases, the concentration of methanol detected in the victim’s body is 3 to 5 times the lethal dose.
TASS reported that since the number of toxic counterfeit liquors sold is unknown, local authorities provide “several times more suspicious liquors” with supermarket groceries in exchange for “suspect quality alcoholic beverages” in the hands of residents. (Click to watch related video)
According to statistics, 21 million people in Russia live below the poverty line. Earlier, there have been repeated reports of deaths caused by drinking cheap alcohol substitutes. For example, in 2016, 77 people in Siberia died after drinking bath oil mixed with methylated alcohol in search of the pleasure of alcohol, shocking the whole country.
In recent years, alcohol consumption in Russia has been on a downward trend. The World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out in 2019 that Russia’s alcohol consumption dropped by 43% between 2003 and 2016, which has also led to a rapid increase in the life expectancy of Russians.
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