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U.S. NEWS Monday 23 SepteMber 2019
3 dead, 4 hospitalized in suspected

drug overdose

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three case of a tainted drug be-
people were killed and four ing passed around or dis-
others were hospitalized tributed in large volume at
early Sunday in what po- a large venue which could
lice said appeared to be a have affected even more
mass drug overdose. people. It appears to have
The victims, all men, ap- been isolated to a single
pear to have taken narcot- location," the Pittsburgh
ics at the same time and Department of Public
in the same place in an Safety said in a statement.
apartment on Pittsburgh's "However, police are con-
South Side, authorities said. cerned about a tainted,
It wasn't immediately clear potentially deadly batch
which drug or combination of drugs in the community."
of drugs was involved. In- Five of the victims were
vestigators were interview- found in an apartment,
ing survivors at the hospital. one in an elevator outside
All of the victims were the apartment and one on
wearing orange paper the street. The hospitalized This is the apartment building on the city's South Side where po-
bands on their wrists. Po- victims' conditions ranged lice say multiple people are dead and others are hospitalized in
lice determined the victims from serious to critical. what they're calling a "medical situation" Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019
initially went to a venue The apartment building in Pittsburgh.
together, then headed to said the victims were not Associated Press
the apartment where they tenants of the building, but
overdosed. knew someone who lived
"To be clear, this was not a there.q

Polish president

visits New Britain,

city with Polish ties

NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) at a packed Holy Cross
— The president of Poland Church while the crowd
was made to a feel right at overflowed outside.
home during a visit Sunday Edyta Kysmirek, of Farming-
to a Connecticut city with ton, who was one of the
many residents of Polish de- hundreds standing outside
scent, who wore red and the church, told the New
white T-shirts and waved Britain Herald it was an
Polish flags. honor for Duda to visit New
President Andrzej Duda at- Britain instead of the bigger
tended Mass at a Catho- cities nearby, like New York
lic church, visited Central or Boston.
Connecticut State Univer- Irena and Ted Kurzyna told
sity and addressed Polish- the Hartford Courant they
American relations at a cut short a camping trip so
local park during a visit to they could get a glimpse of
New Britain. Duda.
About 20,000 people with "I have been here almost
Polish heritage live in the 29 years, waiting for the first
city of about 73,000 near visit from a president. I had
Hartford. New Britain even to come," Irene Kurzyna
has a neighborhood called said. Duda plans to travel
Little Poland. from Connecticut to New
Duda and first lady Agata York to attend an upcom-
Kornhauser-Duda started ing United Nations General
their trip by attending Mass Assembly gathering.q