HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Officials in a West Virginia city are warning people about an especially dangerous batch of heroin after authorities responded to 26 overdoses in within a four-hour span.

The rash of overdoses came Monday in the city of Huntington, which sits in Cabell County along the Ohio River in the western part of the state. Gordon Merry, the county’s EMS director, said at a news conference Tuesday that the heroin the users had taken was laced with a strong substance, but authorities aren’t sure what it is.

Many of the overdoses were in an area surrounding one apartment complex in the city,

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