Before booze killed 12 in Madhya Pradesh, excise department’s many flip-flops
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The Indian Express reports on what it describes as multiple flip-flops by the excise department before a booze-related incident in Madhya Pradesh that killed 12 people. [1]
The headline presents the death toll and links the episode to the excise department, but it does not provide further details in the supplied metadata. [1]
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Impact assessment
40/100
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elevated human impact
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The strongest evidenced dimension establishes the base score. Separate human-impact dimensions can add a bounded share of the remaining headroom without double-counting the same harm.
12 reported deaths are placed between published calibration anchors, producing a loss component of 40/100.
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- Reported deaths12 reported deaths
killed 12