Summary Two more people died in Gujranwala and two were killed in Toba Tek Singh.
GUJRANWALA: The death toll on account of use of toxic cough syrup has risen to 22 in Punjab, as four more people died on Friday, Dunya News reported.
More than thirty people were shifted to District Hospital Gujranwala after consuming the poisonous cough syrup. Out of which, ten patients were rushed to Lahore’s Meo Hospital for emergency treatment.
The deceased include Nandi Pur’s former Naib Nazim Irfan Latif, Munir, Bilal, Irfan, Saeed, Arshad, Mubashar, Wasim, Yousuf, Shafiq, Muhammad Zahid, Rafique and Allah Wasaya, Anwar, Iqbal, Intezar, Akbar Ali, Chand and Manat.
Two unidentified men from Toba Tek Sindh also died due to toxic cough syrup.
On the other hand, police have arrested owner of a medical store.
Syrup stocks were also confiscated from whole sale dealers and medicals stores after district administration came into action. The samples have been sent to laboratories for inspection.
The scandal comes after more than 15 died in November in Lahore, Pakistan’s second largest city, after taking a toxic cough syrup ‘known as Tyno’. A forensic report confirmed that the victims were drug addicts.
