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Miriam Burrell

New Zealand food bank hands out sweets with potentially lethal amounts of methamphetamine

A New Zealand charity working with homeless people has handed out sweets laced with potentially lethal doses of methamphetamine in its food parcels after they were donated by a member of the public.

Auckland City Mission on Wednesday said that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets - which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers.

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