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Five children orphaned as bootleg vodka kills 26 people in Russian booze tragedy
Russia, with more deaths feared.A further 22 people are in hospital after consuming the fake alcohol containing highly toxic methanol.Local security man, Murat Berekeshov, 41, and his wife Aislu, 39, were celebrating assembling new furniture for their home by having a drink of vodka.Unbeknown to them, the spirit was counterfeit, resulting in both of them being rushed to hospital and dying five hours apart.They left behind five children aged one, two, four, eight and 12, in the city of Orsk, in the region of Orenburg.Others killed after drinking from bottles from the lethal fake consignment were pensioner Aleksandr Sirotinin, 68, and Dmitry Karelin, 40, and Zhan Nurmakanov, 36, both unemployed.Dmitry Granchenko, 42, was reported to be
