LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani authorities are investigating claims that cough syrup has killed 33 people over the past three days, a government official said Saturday, the second time in recent months that medicine is suspected of causing multiple deaths.
The deaths occurred in the eastern city of Gujranwala and in nearby villages, said a local official, Abdul Jabbar Shaheen. City hospitals were also treating 54 others thought to have consumed the syrup. Officials say they believe that the victims drank the syrup to get high, Mr. Shaheen added.
Tests show the victims' stomachs contained dextromethorphan, a synthetic morphine derivative used in cough syrup that can have mind-altering effects if consumed in large quantities, Mr. Shaheen said. Investigators are trying to determine whether the victims drank too much syrup, or whether there was a problem with the medicine itself, he said.
Twenty-three people died in the nearby city of Lahore in November after drinking bad cough syrup sold under the brand name Tyno. At the time, they were also described as people who had consumed the syrup to get high.
Mr. Shaheen said the cough syrup involved in the episodes in and around Gujranwala was not sold under a single brand. He said that some people in the city made cough syrup to sell specifically to drug addicts, and that officials were trying to arrest them.
Officials temporarily closed one pharmaceutical company based in Lahore whose cough syrup was found in the possession of some affected in Gujranwala. They are investigating whether it caused any of the deaths, Mr. Shaheen said.
Also Saturday, an explosion ripped through a passenger bus while it was at a terminal in the southern city of Karachi, killing six people and wounding 52 others, the police and hospital officials said. It was unclear whether the blast was caused by a bomb or a gas canister. Many buses in Pakistan run on natural gas.
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