Siliguri, June 01: Three persons including a woman died and eight others were hospitalised after consuming spurious country liquor at Dhemal village in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, police said here today. Additional Superintendent of Police Rajiv Mishra told a news agency that there was a feast on Friday night last where the villagers consumed huge amounts of spurious country liquor.

Soon after they started vomiting and were rushed to hospitals where three of them died while eight others are undergoing treatment, Mishra said.

Bureau Report