A powerful version of ecstasy produced in Poland is thought to have been behind the deaths of three people here and at least 20 elsewhere in Europe, police said Wednesday.
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11 January 2001 y., Thursday
A powerful version of ecstasy produced in Poland is thought to have been behind the deaths of three people here and at least 20 elsewhere in Europe, police said Wednesday.
"It is a derivative of ecstasy with a stronger effect, nicknamed UFO, but is likely to appear under other names as well," police spokesman Piotr Walancik told AFP.
The three Polish deaths were in the northern port city of Gdansk.
Twenty other deaths in Europe, mostly in Austria and Britain, have been linked to a drug with a similar composition.
Police believe UFO was made at a factory in the central Polish town of Skarzysko Kamienna that was supplying western European countries, and which they shut down in a mid-December raid.
Poland is one of the main producers of ecstasy in Europe, according to law enforcement officials.
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