EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Two state police officers in Chihuahua, Mexico, are recovering in a hospital after becoming ill while conducting a drug seizure.

The two unnamed officers entered a home late in Chihuahua City last week to arrest drug suspects and found a bag in a room with a substance they initially identified as powdered cocaine. They touched the bag, which likely was tainted with drug residue, and remained in the room for some time, Mexican police officials said.

“The moment they came into contact with it – and there have been instances even in the United States where first responders inhale spores and powder in the air – they experienced an overdose,” Chihuahua State Police Chief of Staff Luis Aguirre said on Monday. “Fortunately, the officers received immediate assist

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