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Edward Helmore

Three dead and 18 first responders sickened by apparent fentanyl exposure in New Mexico

Police vehicles surround a home.
New Mexico state police respond to home in Mountainair, where authorities say several people died on 20 May. Photograph: Savannah Peters/AP

Three people died and 18 first responders were sickened by exposure to fentanyl in a rural New Mexico home this week, New Mexico state police said.

Police initially found four people unconscious at the home in Mountainair, 90 miles (145km) east of Albuquerque. Two were declared dead at the scene and a third died at a hospital.

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