Death toll from bootleg alcohol rises to four in Bursa

BURSA

Another person who had been taken to hospital after drinking bootleg booze has lost his life in the northwestern province of Bursa, raising the number of people who died from bootleg alcohol in the city to four.

After bootleg booze killed three people - Şakir Çelik, Erol Oktay and Necip Cece - of the 14 people who were hospitalized on Nov. 14, Fuat İşcen also died in the hospital on Nov. 16. The treatment of the other 10 people in the hospital continues.

The police detained R.U., who supplied the poisoned people with bootleg alcohol, in Bursa, and O.Y., who sent methyl alcohol by cargo, in the western province of İzmir.

Bootleg alcohol is made using low-cost methyl alcohol instead of ethyl alcohol.

The consumption of illegally distilled liquor can cause permanent blindness, metabolic disturbances and death.

The skyrocketing rise in the prices of alcoholic beverages has encouraged fraudsters and has led people to fail to differentiate liquids produced in illegal laboratories.

Experts repeatedly warn drinkers not to buy from unlicensed sellers or attempt to distill their own drinks at home with unfamiliar materials.