Local media reported the drug had been ‘cut’ with a toxic substance, likely by a drug gang looking to cut costs
At least 16 people have died in Argentina and dozens have been hospitalised after consuming cocaine suspected of containing a poisonous substance, authorities in Buenos Aires province, at the centre of the incident, said.
A spokesperson for the provincial security minister Sergio Berni, shared a list of fatalities at hospitals in the suburban region around the country’s capital city, raising the number from 12 deaths and 50 people hospitalised announced earlier.
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