Police on Wednesday caught three men accused of preparing home-made liquor mixed with aftershave that killed 34 people including a fourth suspect after they consumed the toxic brew on Christmas Eve. More than a hundred people were also sickened in the incident, one of the country's deadliest cases of mass alcohol poisoning, which happened in a Christian neighbourhood in the town of Toba Tek Singh some 340 kilometres (211 miles) south of Islamabad.

"Four people have been identified who prepared and distributed the toxic liquor," senior police official Atif Imran, who is investigating the case, told AFP, adding the group had also consumed the alcohol themselves. "One of them died because of the liquor, two others are in critical condition while the fourth is in police custody," he added. The suspect in police custody had confessed to preparing the brew by mixing it with 20 litres of aftershave and other chemicals. The development was confirmed by another senior police official Usman Akram Gondal.

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