Drug warning issued after two deaths

Police have issued a warning after two people died of drug-related deaths while four others overdosed in Vernon. RCMP spokesman Gord Molendyk says a 49-year-old man who was known to use drugs died of asphyxiation, and a 29-year-old man was found dead in his bed with drug paraphernalia next to him. He says three other men are recovering in hospital after overdosing and a woman at a shelter overdosed on what is believed to be a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Molendyk says all six cases occurred in the last week and warned users to be cautious.