New Westminster Police are warning about a lethal unknown drug following the death of a teenage girl on Friday.
Police told Global News a 16-year-old girl died after taking a drug she thought was MDMA. Her friend is in critical condition. Toxicology tests are pending.
They had purchased the drug in pill form from the same street-level drug dealer.
“This raises a number of different concerns for us, the first being that there’s a lethal drug circulating… and we don’t know what that drug is,” Sgt. Jeff Scott of New Westminster Police said. “Buyers are being told that it’s one thing when clearly it’s a mixture of other things.”
Police are telling drug users who don’t feel well to seek medical attention immediately.
Anyone with information is asked to call the New Westminster Police at 604-525-5411.
— With files from Nadia Stewart