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Nov 06, 2013 News
The police have collected samples of local sweets for testing after they reportedly caused some children in the North West District area to fall ill after they had eaten them. The children, whose ages range between three and 12 years old, came down with vomiting and diarrhea and had to be treated at the Mabaruma Hospital. They were discharged yesterday.
Residents believe that the children had eaten sweets stuffed with cocaine, which they had purchased from a shopkeeper in their White Water North West District community.
A senior police source from the district told this newspaper that while he has almost ruled out that the sweets contained the highly addictive drug, they are being brought to the city today to be tested in the police laboratory.
“We don’t know as yet that the sweets contain cocaine. From what we know so far, the children tasted the sweets and their tongue felt funny; that’s all we know at this time,” the source said.
He indicated that they have seized the rest of the batch of sweets and have questioned the shopkeeper who sold them.
“It is unlikely that somebody will put such a drug in sweets and allow it to be sold for ‘pennies’,” a resident of Mabaruma told this newspaper yesterday.
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