Hooch kills 34 in Uttarakhand, UP

The victims had consumed the liquor on Thursday evening at the `tehravin' - the 13th day of mourning – to mark a death

Thirty-four people died died in two adjoining districts allegedly after drinking spurious liquor at a village in Uttarakhand's Haridwar district, officials said on Friday.

The victims had consumed the liquor on Thursday evening at the `tehravin' - the 13th day of mourning – to mark a death, officials said.

Sixteen of the victims died in Uttarakhand's Balupur village itself.

Eighteen more deaths took place in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur district, which adjoins Uttarakhand, as the people who had attended the mourning ritual returned home.

Some of them had carried the liquor home, an official said.