{"id":975168,"date":"2022-02-03T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/tainted-cocaine-kills-at-least-20-sickens-dozens-near-buenos-aires\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T18:57:23","slug":"tainted-cocaine-kills-at-least-20-sickens-dozens-near-buenos-aires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/tainted-cocaine-kills-at-least-20-sickens-dozens-near-buenos-aires\/","title":{"rendered":"Tainted cocaine kills at least 20, sickens dozens near Buenos Aires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Tainted-cocaine-kills-at-least-20-sickens-dozens-near-Buenos-Aires.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Tainted cocaine has killed at least 20 people in Argentina and dozens have been hospitalized, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Local government officials said the cocaine contained a suspected poisonous substance. The cases happened in Buenos Aires province.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Speaking to the Telef\u00e9 TV channel, Buenos Aires Province Security Minister Segio Berni said the suspected poisonous substance was &#8220;a key ingredient attacking the central nervous system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 10 people were arrested at a house in a poor neighborhood in the Tres de Febrero district where authorities believe the tainted cocaine was sold.<\/p>\n<p>The cocaine is being analyzed in La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province.<\/p>\n<p>San Martin&#8217;s Attorney General Marcelo Lapargo is heading the investigation. He told C5N TV Thursday that he&#8217;s waiting for lab results to determine what substance was in the cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It could be a conflict between rival gangs,&#8221; Lapargo told C5N. &#8220;I don&#8217;t tend to believe that it was something unintentional &#8230; I&#8217;m extremely concerned for people who still have this in their pockets and may still consume it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; Tainted cocaine has killed at least 20 people in Argentina and dozens have been hospitalized, officials said Thursday. Local government officials said the cocaine contained a suspected poisonous substance. The cases happened in Buenos Aires province. Advertisement Speaking to the Telef\u00e9 TV channel, Buenos Aires Province Security Minister Segio Berni said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}