Three women, who fell sick after “taking excessive liquor” in Munshiganj’s Gajaria upazila last night, die at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Officially, most bars and social clubs neither import nor purchase alcohol yet they log huge sales; restrictive law, high import tariff, bureaucratic nightmare encouraging smuggling; govt loses big, earning almost nothing out of this trade.

Three picnickers have died and four others fell sick after taking excessive quantity of liquor at Enayetpur village in Badalgachhi upazilla on Saturday.