In the suburbs of Buenos Aires, twenty people died and eighty-four are hospitalized following consuming adulterated cocaine, local authorities announced on Wednesday February 2. They recommend vigilance to consumers and attempt to identify the exact nature of the toxic substance responsible for these deaths.
A gigantic police operation has been set up in the suburbs of Buenos Aires in the past twenty-four hours, while twenty people have died and eighty-four are hospitalized as a result of taking an extremely toxic adulterated cocaine. The victims, mainly men between the ages of 30 and 40, from poor neighborhoods, were seized with convulsions and suffered sudden cardiac arrests. “There is an important component that attacks the central nervous system, said the Minister of Security of the province of Buenos Aires, Sergio Berni, quoted by the Argentine daily The nation. Anyone who has purchased drugs in the last twenty-four hours should throw them away.”
A dozen arrests were made, and 15,000 doses were seized. “The arrests occurred in a bunker in the Puerta 8 shantytown, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, relate The Country America. This is the place reported as the point of sale of cocaine
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Mathilde Guillaume
