Passage: A total of 406 people have died from drinking illicit liquor in a wave of alcohol poisoning in numerous Russian regions over the past few months, the head of the country's consumer rights watchdog agency said on Tuesday. Gennady Onishchenko, chief of the Federal Service for Consumer Rights Supervision, said some 10,000 cases of toxic hepatitis caused by toxic alcohol substitutes have been registered in 18 regions, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.
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