Public health chiefs have issued a health warning over suspected counterfeit Valium which has been implicated in the deaths of three men in Plymouth over the weekend.

Police were called to a property in Welbeck Avenue on Saturday afternoon after concerns were reaised for the welfare of two men. Emergency services attended and the two men were found dead.

The men were aged in their 20s and 30s respectively. The following a day, the third man, aged in his 30s, was found dead at a property in North Road East. Detectives highlighted concerns that the deaths were all drug related and Harbour, Plymouth's drug and alcohol rehabilitation service, issued an alert on Sunday evening warning that the three men died after taking blue pills.

They suspected that the pills were advertised as Valium

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