PUBLISHED: 28 Aug 2024 at 15: 35
As researchers widen their hunt for those responsible for producing and selling the fatal rotgut beyond the city’s northern neighbourhoods, two more fatalities have taken the death toll in Bangkok’s whiskey alcohol startle to six.  ,
Dr Pairoj Surattanawanich, assistant director-general of the Department of Medical Services, said on Wednesday that two more drinking had died from the effects of alcohol alcohol on Tuesday.
One had died in hospital after earlier being resuscitated, and the other died at home.
He claimed that 22 people who had purchased whiskey from streets liquor stores were still in hospitals. Most suffered through stress, breathing difficulties, deficits of vision, drowsiness, nausea and vomiting.
Two brand-new people with stress and breathing issues had been admitted to Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital in Khannayao area. They informed authorities that they only drank the alcohol at the 18 stalls that had previously been identified and closed after the overdoses became public.
Authorities were looking into five recently discovered alcohol stalls in the Pathum Thani and Lat Krabang districts of Bangkok and Lam Luk Ka area.
A 49-year-old person suspected of supplying the beverage to the 18 now closed booths was charged with the improper production of alcohol and recklessness causing death and serious injuries, according to Pol Maj Gen Kiatikul Sonthinen, captain of the Metropolitan Police Division 3, which supervises north Bangkok.
It was previously reported that 17 of the imbibers required liver treatment and two of the imbibers were now dependent on ventilators.
The finished booths were in Khannayao, Khlong Sam Wa, Lat Krabang, Min Buri, Nong Chok and Prawet regions.
The police chief argued that samples of baked alcohol from the 18 stalls contained dangerous methanol and that customers should not purchase illegal booze for their own security.