Montreal public health investigating after overdoses send six people to hospital

Montreal public health says it’s investigating a series of overdoses in downtown Montreal Sunday that sent six people to hospital.

The health agency says what happened is concerning but that it’s not uncommon for a large number of people to overdose in one day because of the contamination of street drugs with synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl.

Montreal’s ambulance service says it received a call Sunday afternoon for six people experiencing overdoses and that four were transported to hospital.

Urgences-santé spokesman Sébastien Coulombe says a second call was received from the same area slightly over an hour later and that two additional people were sent to hospital.