9 deaths in 5 days: more overdoses reported in B.C. Interior

B.C.’s Interior Health Authority now says nine people have died in just five days in suspected drug overdoses, prompting a region-wide alert.

Over the weekend, the health authority reported there had been seven deaths in four days, but increased that number on Monday.

Health officials will not say exactly where the overdoses have occurred. Interior Health serves more than 50 communities and stretches from Williams Lake in the northwest of British Columbia to Osoyoos in the southwest and from Golden in